Nothing unexpected.... Date: Fri 14 Nov 2014 Source: Bloomberg [edited] bloomberg/news/2014-11-13/staff-member-at-clinic-in-mali-isolated-for-suspected-ebola.html Investigators have identified 5 people infected by Ebola in Mali and have a 6th suspected case as the nation races to contain the virus that has ravaged 3 of its West African neighbors. More than 200 people who had contacts with those individuals have been identified, and new cases will probably be confirmed in the coming days, Hubert Balique, a French public-health expert consulting with the French embassy in Mali, told reporters yesterday [13 Nov 2014] in the capital city, Bamako. A 25 year old nurse died from Ebola on 11 Nov 2014 at a clinic in Mali, the World Health Organization and Mali health authorities said on 12 Nov 2014. He had treated a 70 year old grand imam from Guinea, who was hospitalized for kidney failure and wasnt tested for Ebola. A worker at the same clinic is in isolation as officials race to prevent the virus from spreading further in a 4th West African nation. Ebola has killed more than 5000 people in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone since December [2013], making it the worst outbreak since the disease was identified in 1976 in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Pasteur Clinic in Bamako, where the clinic staff member and the nurse worked, has been quarantined, Frances embassy said in a text message to its registered nationals in the country yesterday [13 Nov 2014]. The message asked anyone who had treatment at the clinic or knows someone who did to call a phone line. Mali is getting help from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to trace people who have had contact with Ebola-infected individuals, Balique said. Senegal and Nigeria have been declared free of the disease. Mali last month [October 2014] became the 6th country in West Africa to confirm a case of Ebola, when a woman brought her infected 2 year old granddaughter from Guinea. The girl died on 24 Oct 2014. WHO now lists 4 deaths in Mali, including the original case, which is unrelated to the current outbreak. Malis president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita asked prime minister Moussa Mara to take steps to prevent the further spread of the virus, the nations council of ministers said in an emailed statement. [byline: Francois Rihouay, Simeon Bennett] -- communicated by: ProMED-mail rapporteur Mary Marshall
Posted on: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 11:33:17 +0000
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