Ebola-Mali Records Second Death

Officials in Mali have shut down a hospital in Bamako where a second patient who died of the deadly Ebola Virus Disease was reported.

Mali’s Information Minister, Mahamadou Camara said in a statement on Twitter that “prevention measures” were being taken, but gave no details on the case. Local officials and diplomats said the new case was unrelated to the first one recorded in October.

Mali has now become the sixth West African country to record a case of the deadly Ebola Virus Disease when a two-year-old girl from Guinea died last month. The country has not recorded any confirmed cases of the disease since then and 108 people linked to the girl were due to complete their 21-day quarantine period on Tuesday.

Medical officials and diplomats in Mali said the new Ebola case was a nurse who had been in contact with a man who arrived from Guinea and died in late October at the now locked down Pasteur Clinic.

A medical officer, who asked not to be identified, said the nurse who had Ebola died on Tuesday evening while another doctor was ill and had been quarantined. A government spokesman was not available to comment on the nurse’s reported death.