First Ebola Case Confirmed In Mali
Source: Reuters
BAMAKO, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Mali said on Thursday it had detected its first confirmed case of Ebola, making it the sixth West African country to be touched by the worst outbreak on record of the deadly haemorrhagic fever.
Health Minister Ousmane Kone told state television that the patient in the western region of Kayes was a two-year-old girl who had recently arrived from neighboring Guinea, where the outbreak began.
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/23/ebola-mali_n_6038026.html
nitpicker
(7,153 posts)JI7
(89,244 posts)LisaL
(44,973 posts)LynneSin
(95,337 posts)I would have expected worse. But if they do what Senegal and Nigeria has done they should be fine.
LisaL
(44,973 posts)So that one case can turn into many.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)since she died from it .
LisaL
(44,973 posts)Not a good combination.
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)so it's expected.
If they play it smart they can keep the impact minimal
Bosonic
(3,746 posts)https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/525731837667471360
muriel_volestrangler
(101,295 posts)Forty-three people, including 10 health workers, who came into contact with her have been identified and isolated.
The girl was being treated in the western town of Kayes, after arriving at a hospital on Wednesday.
The child had travelled more than 1,000 km (600 miles) from Guinea through the capital, Bamako, to Kayes.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-29755443
That sounds bad - her mother died weeks ago, so she was probably infectious the entire journey.
Bosonic
(3,746 posts)Bamako (AFP) - Mali authorities on Saturday scrambled to calm fears over Ebola after the disease claimed its first victim in the African country, a contagious toddler who took a 1,000-kilometre journey on public buses before seeking treatment.
The World Health Organization warned the situation in Mali was an "emergency," and said in its latest Ebola situation report that the biggest outbreak on record has now killed 4,922 people, the vast majority of them in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, with 10,141 cases reported.
The US states of New York and New Jersey ordered mandatory quarantine for medics who had treated victims of the disease in west Africa, after a doctor who had returned from the region became the first Ebola case in New York City.
President Barack Obama sought to calm a jittery public by hugging one of the two nurses who became the first to contract Ebola on American soil after treating a patient, but has now been declared free of the disease.
https://news.yahoo.com/mali-seeks-contain-ebola-fears-girl-dies-111511300.html;_ylt=AwrBEiROh0tUo3sAuEvQtDMD