First confirmed Ebola patient in Mali dies

[magical thyme]

The victim, a 2-year-old girl, had traveled to the country with her grandmother from Guinea -- one of the three countries hardest hit during the recent Ebola outbreak.

Earlier on Friday, the World Health Organization said that the girl had multiple opportunities to expose others to the virus.

Health Ministry spokeswoman Markatie Daou said the dozens of people who had contact with the girl have not shown any symptom related to the virus, as of Friday.

They include 10 medical workers who came into contact with the girl in the city of Kayes, west of the Mali capital of Bamako, WHO spokesman Tarik Jasarevic said. Kayes has a population of about 128,000 people.

He cited local authorities as saying 43 people were being monitored in total. The incubation period for Ebola is two to 21 days, so the country faces a long wait to know if it's in the clear.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/24/world/africa/mali-ebola/

[LisaL]

1. And it was a very bad case in term of potentially spreading it far and wide.

Child was traveling while having a nose bleed. So she was symptomatic and traveling using public transportation, potentially spreading it to numerous people along the way.

[Marrah_G]

2. Very sad :(

[gwheezie]

3. How sad

i read where she was in several cities along her journey. I hope they identified all her contacts.

[uppityperson]

4. RIP little girl.

[cwydro]

5. Poor wee thing.

Too young to have any kind of immune system.

Such a tragedy over there.