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No New Cases Of Ebola In Mali After Last Patient Is Cured, Says President

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President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita said Mali is Ebola-free after the last confirmed case was cured.
The country has had seven confirmed case and one probable case after the virus spread from Guinea -- its neighboring country.
Six of the patients that contracted the disease have died, NBC News reported. Around 285 more people had contact with these six and are being monitored, but they are not showing no symptoms of Ebola.

Keita gave a statement about the Ebola cases in Mali at a summit in Senegal Saturday.
"At this moment, there are no cases of infection," Keita said. "The suspected case turned out to be negative and the day before yesterday we had the good news of the first cured case of Ebola so I can now say zero cases in Mali."
Approximately 16,000 cases of Ebola have been recorded in eight countries since last December. The death toll has risen to 5,689 and all but 15 of the deaths have occurred in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. These three countries have reported 600 new cases within the past week.
The president of Liberia hopes that her country will be Ebola free by Christmas. However, the death toll continues to rise in Sierra Leone.
The World Health Organization is calling upon other countries for supplies and volunteers to help combat the deadly disease.
Sierra Leone is also in immense danger because safe and healthy burials have not been a regular practice, The Associated Press reported.

United Nations officials said they had hoped the end of the epidemic would be in sight by December 1. However, that goal seems to be far out of sight.
While progress has been made, more people are continuing to contract the disease and many are dying.
"As long as there's one person with Ebola out there, then the crisis isn't over and Ebola is a risk to the people of that community, that country, this sub-region, this continent, this world," Anthony Banbury, head of the U.N. Mission for Ebola Emergency Response, said. "Our goal and what we will achieve is getting it down to zero, but there's no doubt it's going to be a long, hard fight."