Mali Confirms New Case of Ebola

12 November 2014
allAfrica.com
By Boakai Fofana

Monrovia — Officials in Mali have confirmed the country's second case of Ebola, the BBC is reporting.

The new case - a nurse who died after treating a man from Guinea - is said to be unrelated to the first victim, a two-year-old Guinean girl who died in October.

This comes just as the World Health Organization started to lift the quarantine it had placed on scores of people who might have come in contact with the "index case" – a public health reference to the first case. Information Minister Mahamadou Camara posted on Twitter that "preventative measures" were being taken. Police have been deployed outside a clinic in Bamako which authorities say is being quarantined, according to Reuters.

Mali becomes the sixth West Africa country affected by Ebola, although WHO has since declared Nigeria and Senegal free of the virus. Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone remain the worst-affected nations. Nearly 5,000 people have died from the disease since the outbreak began in March.

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