Mali scrambles to contain Ebola after new confirmed death

UPDATE:   Mali quarantines dozens after Ebola kills second victim

REUTERS                                                                              Nov. 12, 2014

By Joe Penney

BAMAKO --Authorities in Mali quarantined dozens of people on Wednesday at the home of a 25-year-old nurse who died from Ebola in the capital, Bamako, and at the clinic where he treated an imam from Guinea who died with Ebola-like symptoms.

Secretary-general of Mali's Health Ministry Ousmane Doumbia (2nd L) speaks to journalists at a news conference in Bamako November 12, 2014. Credit: Reuters/Joe Penney

The imam from the border town of Kouremale was never tested for the disease and his body was washed in Mali and returned to Guinea for burial without precautions against the virus.

Two aid workers said that another person who lived in the house where the imam stayed in Bamako had died this week and was buried without being tested.

A doctor at the Pasteur Clinic where the nurse worked - one of Bamako's top medical centers - is also suspected to have contracted Ebola.

Mali, the sixth West African nation to record Ebola, must now trace a new batch of contacts just as people linked to its first and only other case - a two-year-old girl who died last month - completed their 21-day quarantine on Tuesday.

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Earlier story

AFP                                                          Nov. 12, 2014

By Serge Daniel

Bamako - Mali scrambled Wednesday to contain an outbreak of Ebola as it confirmed the death of a nurse, its second fatal case but the first of the virus spreading within the country's borders.

Officials say the nurse died Tuesday after treating a man who arrived from Guinea at a clinic in the capital Bamako.

A child walks past a school that was closed after the first confirmed Ebola patient in Mali died, in Kayes, west of Bamako, on October 26, 2014 (AFP Photo/Elisabeth Guthmann)

The patient was suffering from kidney failure and later died, medical sources said late Tuesday, and authorities now believe he also had Ebola, although this has not been confirmed.

The Bamako clinic is now in quarantine.

The case -- involving the first Ebola death of a Malian national in the country -- has raised fears of further contamination as it was unrelated to Mali's only other confirmed fatality, that of a two-year-old girl.

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