Mali Investigators Identify Five Ebola Cases With Sixth Possible
Investigators have identified five people infected by Ebola in Mali and have a sixth suspected case as the nation races to contain the virus that has ravaged three 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 today in the capital city, Bamako.
A 25-year-old nurse died from Ebola on Nov. 11 at a clinic in Mali, the World Health Organization and Mali health authorities said yesterday. She had treated a 70-year-old grand imam from Guinea, who was hospitalized for kidney failure and wasn’t tested for Ebola.