Malian officials met on Monday to consider increasing security at its border following two confirmed cases of Ebola due to infection in neighbouring Guinea.
US airports also announced plans to begin enhanced screening of travellers from the west African nation.
Mali has been scrambling to prevent a minor outbreak from turning into a major crisis after the deaths of a Guinean imam and the Malian nurse who treated him in the capital Bamako
The Ebola virus which has killed over 5,177 people and infected around 14,500 since it emerged in Guinea in December has a high mortality rate.
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