Ebola: 82 people under surveillance in Mali
Tuesday, October 28, 2014 / by Assanatou Balde
The World Health Organization has supervised 82 people who had contact with the two year old girl died Friday in Mali, after contracting Ebola.
The Mali is not yet out of the woods about Ebola. The World Health Organization (WHO) decided to put under surveillance 82 people who had contact with the two year old girl died Friday after contracting Ebola, although no new cases of the disease have been identified in this country.
According to Tarik Jasarevic, spokesman of the World Organization SantéTrois WRs are already in Mali, where they arrived, there was one week to assess the ability of local authorities to deal with any cases Ebola, and five others are expected to join. Mali became the sixth country in West Africa to report a case of Ebola in its territory. This is a two year old girl who died four days after his arrival in Mali from Guinea, where the outbreak began in January 2014 and has spread in West Africa.
According to WHO, the girl carried with her grandmother, hundreds of miles by bus, including a step in Bamako before being hospitalized on October 20 at Kayes in western Mali, already showing symptoms of the disease and therefore was contagious when she began this journey. According to diplomatic sources, who are assigned to the AFP, Mali is ill-prepared for a potential increase in cases of Ebola in its territory, which hosts a large Stabilization Mission United Nations and a French military contingent due to the presence of radicals in the Islamic north.
WHO is looking into the idea of creating a treatment center in Kayes, noting that 40 volunteers were trained to search for contacts of infected persons, an element considered crucial to control the spread of the disease. Ebola has so far killed nearly 5,000 people, and has not said its last word in spite of the means used to contain the epidemic. http://www.afrik.com/ebola-82-personnes-sous-surveillance-au-mali
Tuesday, October 28, 2014 / by Assanatou Balde
The World Health Organization has supervised 82 people who had contact with the two year old girl died Friday in Mali, after contracting Ebola.
The Mali is not yet out of the woods about Ebola. The World Health Organization (WHO) decided to put under surveillance 82 people who had contact with the two year old girl died Friday after contracting Ebola, although no new cases of the disease have been identified in this country.
According to Tarik Jasarevic, spokesman of the World Organization SantéTrois WRs are already in Mali, where they arrived, there was one week to assess the ability of local authorities to deal with any cases Ebola, and five others are expected to join. Mali became the sixth country in West Africa to report a case of Ebola in its territory. This is a two year old girl who died four days after his arrival in Mali from Guinea, where the outbreak began in January 2014 and has spread in West Africa.
According to WHO, the girl carried with her grandmother, hundreds of miles by bus, including a step in Bamako before being hospitalized on October 20 at Kayes in western Mali, already showing symptoms of the disease and therefore was contagious when she began this journey. According to diplomatic sources, who are assigned to the AFP, Mali is ill-prepared for a potential increase in cases of Ebola in its territory, which hosts a large Stabilization Mission United Nations and a French military contingent due to the presence of radicals in the Islamic north.
WHO is looking into the idea of creating a treatment center in Kayes, noting that 40 volunteers were trained to search for contacts of infected persons, an element considered crucial to control the spread of the disease. Ebola has so far killed nearly 5,000 people, and has not said its last word in spite of the means used to contain the epidemic. http://www.afrik.com/ebola-82-personnes-sous-surveillance-au-mali
