First Ebola Case Confirmed In Mali

[Bosonic]

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]

1. BBC also reporting this

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-29750723

[JI7]

2. any idea of how the 2 year old girl could have gotten it ?

[LisaL]

5. She recently arrived from Guinea.

[LynneSin]

3. For a country that borders right up against Guinea to have just one - not bad

I would have expected worse. But if they do what Senegal and Nigeria has done they should be fine.

[LisaL]

6. She was traveling with a nose bleed and potentially infected many people.

So that one case can turn into many.

[Aerows]

7. And she was clearly severely contagious

since she died from it .

[LisaL]

8. Yes, symptomatic, bleeding and traveling using public transportation.

Not a good combination.

[LynneSin]

9. Nigeria ended up with 20

so it's expected.

If they play it smart they can keep the impact minimal

[Bosonic]

4. Two-year-old girl who was Mali's first Ebola case has died: health official

Two-year-old girl who was Mali's first Ebola case has died: health official

https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/525731837667471360

[muriel_volestrangler]

10. 43 people have been isolated already

The girl showed symptoms, including a bleeding nose, while travelling on a public bus through several towns, the World Health Organization (WHO) said.

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]

11. Mali seeks to contain Ebola fears after girl dies

Mali seeks to contain Ebola fears after girl dies

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