Ebola Strikes Mali Just as Vaccination Effort Gets Under - TopicsExpress

Ebola Strikes Mali Just as Vaccination Effort Gets Under Way Public health officials in Mali are scrambling to trace over 200 people who may have been in contact with a religious leader who died of Ebola there this week. The 70-year-old imam had crossed the border from Guinea, where the current West African outbreak began last December and has now infected more than 14,000 and killed at least 5,000. (Related: From Senegal and Nigeria, 4 Lessons on How to Stop Ebola.) Share His caregivers in Bamako, Malis capital, failed to recognize that he was infected with the deadly virus, and many people came to visit the religious leader while he was ill. After his death, his body was cleaned, again without realizing the risk for contagion. His burial in the border town of Kourémalé, Guinea, was well attended. A nurse who treated him has already died, and a technician who gave him a sonogram is sick with the disease. Several other people who came in contact with the imam have died of unknown causes, including family members who rode in the car he was transported in. Ironically, the cluster of new cases comes at the same time that an experimental Ebola vaccine is being tested on health care workers in Mali. Myron Levine, director of the Center for Vaccine Development at the University of Marylands School of Medicine, has spent the past four decades developing, improving, and piloting new vaccines. Now Levine is collaborating with health officials in Mali to test the new Ebola vaccine. He talked with National Geographic about the new outbreak and the progress of the vaccine trials. Why are we seeing Ebola in Mali now? Mali shares a very long border with Guinea. Its a porous border. On the main crossing points theres control, but in the hinterland, anyone can go from Mali to Guinea and back. The countries are extremely similar. The tribal languages and customs—the difference in nationality is pretty artificial for many parts along the border. (See Mapping the Spread of Ebola.)

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