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Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Mali: a suspect Ebola, dozens of people quarantined case in Bamako

November 12, 2014
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Mali: a suspect Ebola, dozens of people quarantined case in Bamako

"A doctor who is actually a suspected case of Ebola is observation, because he has been in contact with the two dead people, and we are looking also others who surrounded the deceased but who returned home ", told AFP an official clinic on condition of anonymity.

Malian doctor considered a suspected case of Ebola after being in contact with two people died from the virus in a clinic in Bamako, was watching Wednesday near the capital, told AFP from sources.

In addition, dozens of people were quarantined at the Pasteur Clinic, nearly half of them soldiers of the UN Mission in Mali (Minusma) who were in the facility at the time of the announcement Tuesday two deaths from Ebola.
These two people are dead and a nurse Guinea sick. The Ministry of Health confirmed in a statement Tuesday that the death of nurse 25, tested positive for the virus after "reported having had contact with a patient from Guinea", also died.
"A doctor who is actually a suspected case of Ebola is observation, because he has been in contact with the two dead people, and we are looking also others who surrounded the deceased but who returned home ", told AFP an official clinic on condition of anonymity.
The Guinean patient Goïta Sekou, 66, arrived "there are 16 days" by bus from Guinea to Bamako for treatment of a "kidney failure," according to another medical source. "At his death, it was discovered that two members of his family have died of Ebola. but he hid it, "Has it explained the same source.
The nurse died, named Saliou Diarra, was "very close contact" with the Guinean patient, and knew that he was suffering from Ebola, according to a close.

A safety device was still visible around the clinic, found the AFP correspondents.

"We are thirty quarantined in the clinic. There are doctors, patients, fifteen soldiers of the UN mission in Bamako. We do not understand this measure of isolation, "said a doctor told AFP, reached by telephone.
"We do not have room, this is the big mess, mess," he has said.
Soldiers from Minusma from Burkina Faso, Chad, Côte d'Ivoire and Bangladesh, especially in hospital for "injuries" and "TB" before the discovery of Ebola cases are quarantined in the clinic, said AFP a source of security.
The announcement of these two new cases came as Mali, last countries affected by the epidemic in West Africa, was preparing to lift the quarantine of more than 100 people have approached the first identified case, a girl 2 years came from Guinea and died October 24 in Kayes (west). There is no link between this case and the following first.  https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fmaliactu.net%2Fau-mali-la-ville-de-kayes-vit-en-etat-de-siege-face-a-ebola%2F&edit-text=