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**alert** · October 23, 2014, 08:51 AM

Mali: 3 year old girl suspect case of Ebola after father dies in Guinea

Malijet Epidémie : un cas suspect d’Ebola signalé à Kayes Bamako Mali

http://www.malijet.com/la_societe_malienne_aujourdhui/la_sante_au_mali/114415-un-cas-suspect-d-ebola-a-kayes.html

Epidemic: a suspected case of Ebola reported in Kayes

The information was first given by our colleagues at Studio tamani before being confirmed Kayesinfo the site of a suspected case of Ebola was first discovered in Kayes region. According to reports, "there is a 3 year old girl whose father died in Guinea Conakry. She came to Mali with his aunt (living in Mali) that traveled to Guinea to fetch the girl in question. The girl and her aunt passed through Bamako Bagadadji neighborhood then they went to Kayes. Admitted last Tuesday in the regional hospital in Kayes, the girl and the people who have been in contact with her, are in quarantine. A technical team left Bamako on Wednesday morning to get to Kayes and take blood samples. "

**Pathfinder** · October 23, 2014, 09:49 AM

Re: Mali - Kayes: 3 year old girl suspect case of Ebola after father dies in Guinea

Translation Google

Mali / Ebola suspected cases detected in Kayes

By Laura | Tags: Mali
French.china.org.cn | Updated 23-10-2014

A suspected case of Ebola haemorrhagic fever virus was detected in Kayes, a city in western Mali, 495 km from Bamako, told Xinhua medical sources.

According to the inhabitants of this city, it is a little girl who recently left the Guinea-Conakry with his aunt to return to Mali.

Reached by Xinhua, a doctor at the regional hospital in Kayes has confirmed this suspected case, adding a medical team has already arrived from Bamako in Kayes on Tuesday to take samples to confirm or rule out the disease Ebola virus. "

Another doctor Kayes said the "little girl and some of her relatives have been quarantined in the hospital."

For its part, the communications officer of the Malian Ministry of Health, Markati? Daou, also indicated that it is a suspect case.

"There is no cause for alarm because it is not confirmed. With the capacity of the Laboratory SEREFO of Bamako by the National Institute of Heath of the United States of America, the samples will be tested here even in Bamako in Mali. We hope that the tests are negative, "he has said.

Otherwise, "the arrangements put in place now by the government (of Mali) prevents the spread (of the disease)," reassured Mr. Daou. end

Mali/Ebola : un cas suspect détecté à Kayes

http://french.china.org.cn/foreign/txt/2014-10/23/content_33844076.htm

Un cas suspect de fièvre hémorragique à virus Ebola a été détecté à Kayes, ville de l'ouest du Mali, à 495 km de Bamako, a appris Xinhua de sources médicales.

**Ray** · October 23, 2014, 04:16 PM

Re: Mali - Confirmed Ebola case

Media report confirming this case. http://www.rfi.fr/contenu/ticker/pre...-malien-sante/

First Ebola case confirmed in Mali by the Malian Ministry of Health
This is a small 2 year old girl from the town of Kayes in the west. She returned (from) Guinea. Her family took her to the hospital spontaneously after the first symptoms. Analyzes confirmed this Thursday, October 23, she was a carrier of the Ebola virus.

**sharon sanders** · October 23, 2014, 04:42 PM

Re: Mali - Kayes: 3 year old girl suspect case of Ebola after father dies in Guinea - Media rpt says MoH confirmed

hat tip Michael Coston

A 2nd source...

FIRST CASE OF EBOLA CONFIRMED IN MALI - HEALTH MINISTER
Thu Oct 23, 2014 9:20pm GMT

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Health Minister Ousmane Kone told state television that the patient in the western region of Kayes was a two-year-old girl who had recently arrived from neighbouring Guinea, where the outbreak began.

reuters.com

http://af.reuters.com/article/ghanaNews/idAFL6N0SI6D720141023

**Pathfinder** · October 23, 2014, 06:39 PM

Mali - First confirmed case of Ebola in Kayes - a 2 year old girl from Kissidougou, Guinia

Translation Google

Statement of the Ministry of Health and Public Hygiene

As part of the prevention against the introduction and spread of the disease Ebola in the country, the Government of Mali informs national and international opinion that a suspect case, a 2 year old daughter came Kissidougou Republic of Guinea, appeared to Fousseyni Daou Kayes Hospital, Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2014.

Dispatched to Kayes, specialized health services conducted a blood test on the subject. After analysis, review sample proved positive, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014.

This result by laboratory analysis, Mali knows to this day his first imported case of Ebola virus disease.

The sick child and the people who had contact with her in Kayes were immediately identified and supported to the standard required in the matter.

The Ministry of Health and Public Hygiene has taken all necessary steps to prevent the spread of the virus. It will reassure the public about the measures taken and calls for calm and serenity.

It should be noted that to date, through diligent care, the health status of the infected should improve considerably.

Following the guidance of the President of the Republic, the Government of the Republic of Mali, who thanked all partners for their assistance in his fight against the disease, advising people to avoid unnecessary travel to areas epidemics, and to observe appropriate hygiene and safety regulate the matter.

Bamako, October 23, 2014
Updated Thursday, October 23, 2014 11:15 p.m.
Last updated Thursday, October 23, 2014 at 23:15

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http://www.sante.gov.ml/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2149:communique-du-ministere-de-la-sante-et-de-lhygiene-publique-&catid=78&Itemid=120

**AlaskaDenise** · October 24, 2014, 02:16 AM

Re: Mali - First confirmed case of Ebola in Kayes - a 2 year old girl from Kissidougou, Guinea

from WIkipedia:

Kayes... is a city in western Mali on the S?n?gal River, with a population of 127,368 at the 2009 census....

Economy and transport

Kayes lies on the Route Nationale 1 (RN1) highway and is 612 km (380 mi) by road from Bamako and 96 km (60 mi) from the border with Senegal. The town has an international airport (Kayes Airport), and lies on the Dakar-Niger Railway which offered regional passenger train service to Bamako three times a week via Kati and Diamou as of 2013. [2] The area is rich in gold and iron.

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**Gert van der Hoek** · October 24, 2014, 02:36 AM

Re: Mali - First confirmed case of Ebola in Kayes - a 2 year old girl from Kissidougou, Guinea

Map of Mali with location of Kayes (left)

**Sharky** · October 24, 2014, 04:23 AM

Re: Mali - First confirmed case of Ebola in Kayes - a 2 year old girl from Kissidougou, Guinea

"The Ministry of Health has announced that a 2-year-old girl has tested positive for Ebola on 23 October. The child travelled from Kissidogou, Guinea. Her mother died in Guinea several weeks earlier, and relatives brought her to Mali. She presented to the Fousseyni Daou Hospital in Kayes on 22 October. The child and all her contacts are in quarantine. Unverified sources indicate that the child spent ten days in Bamako, in Bagadadji, before being taken to Kayes. It is unclear whether she displayed any symptoms of illness while in Bamako."

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https://www.internationalsos.com/ebola/index.cfm?content_id=443&language_id=ENG

**Gert van der Hoek** · October 24, 2014, 04:56 AM

Re: Mali - First confirmed case of Ebola in Kayes - a 2 year old girl from Kissidougou, Guinea

WHO sending Ebola experts to Mali, 43 people monitored for virus

GENEVA Fri Oct 24, 2014

A WHO team of three experts has been in Mali evaluating its defenses, and at least four more would set off over the next few days, WHO spokeswoman Fadela Chaib said.

Malian authorities are monitoring 43 people who have been in contact with the girl, including 10 health workers, she told a news briefing.

Reuters

**Gert van der Hoek** · October 24, 2014, 08:30 AM

Re: Mali - First confirmed case of Ebola in Kayes - a 2 year old girl from Kissidougou, Guinea

- snip -

"She travelled with her grandmother in Guinea and returned to Mali. We don't have all details of this trip," Chaib added.

The girl, who fell ill in the western Malian town of Kayes on Oct. 20, saw a doctor and was admitted the following day to hospital where she remains in the paediatric ward, Chaib said.

"She saw a health care worker on October 20th when she had a fever of 39 degrees Celsius, blood in her stools, was coughing and had a nose bleed. They tested for malaria or typhoid and she was admitted to hospital on October 21st," she said.

AlertNet -Trust.org

**Pathfinder** · October 24, 2014, 08:53 AM

Re: Mali - First confirmed case of Ebola in Kayes - a 2 year old girl from Kissidougou, Guinea

Translation Google

Fri, October 24 2014, 11:06
Posted By Guilana Fidel Momou

Ebola: the first confirmed case in Mali, though there has never been a case of ebola in Kissidougou.

Mali, neighboring country of Guinea, has recorded the first case of the disease Ebola Thursday in the city of Kayes in the west of the country, announced the Malian Ministry of Health in a press release widely distributed by media of that country.

According to the statement from the Ministry of Health, it is a 2 year old little girl from the town of Kissidougou in the Forest Region of Guinea, a city that had previously been spared yet despite its proximity to the city of Gu?ck?dou where the epidemic broke out. Admitted to Hospital Fousseyni Daou Kayes, the case of of the little girl was positive after analyzing her blood sample.
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Until then, Mali had not closed its borders with neighboring Guinea hit by the Ebola virus, not only because of the friendly relations between the two countries, but also in accordance with the regulations of the World Health Organization health Organization (WHO).

Malian authorities explained that the non-closure of the borders with Guinea is due to the establishment of a mechanism to prevent border threat, as is the case at the airport in Bamako Senou. There, all passengers entering Mali are controlled through a thermal camera that evaluates their temperature to see if they develop fever or not.

Anyway Malian authorities say they have set up a national contingency plan which aims to prevent the occurrence of the epidemic of Ebola haemorrhagic fever in their countries.

At the time of publishing this dispatch, we could not reach any Guinean authority to comment on the news.

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http://guineenews.org/ebola-un-premier-cas-confirme-au-mali-pourtant-kissidougou-na-jamais-eu-de-cas-debola/

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**MHSC** · October 24, 2014, 02:18 PM

Re: Mali - First confirmed case of Ebola in Kayes - a 2 year old girl from Kissidougou, Guinea

WHO: Mali case may have infected many people

DAKAR, SENEGAL ? The World Health Organization says a toddler who brought Ebola to Mali was bleeding from her nose during her journey on public transport and may have infected many people.

WHO said it is treating the situation in Mali as an emergency.
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WHO said Friday that the girl and her grandmother passed through several towns in Mali on their trip from Guinea and spent two hours in the Malian capital of Bamako before ending up in the western city of Kayes.

Read more here: http://www.macon.com/2014/10/24/3381...#storylink=cpy

**MHSC** · October 24, 2014, 02:22 PM

Re: Mali - First confirmed case of Ebola in Kayes - a 2 year old girl from Kissidougou, Guinea

Mali isolates nurses amid alarm after first Ebola case

BAMAKO, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Nurses and other people who have come into contact with the first Ebola patient in Mali were isolated on Friday as concerns mounted that an epidemic that has killed 4,900 people in neighbouring West African states could take hold in the country.

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On the dusty streets of the capital Bamako, residents voiced alarm after health officials said the girl had spent 10 days in the city's Bagadadji district before travelling on Sunday to Kayes, some 400 km to the northwest near the Senegalese border.

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One diplomatic source, briefed by authorities, said the girl was showing symptoms of the disease when she arrived in Kayes, three days before she was isolated for suspected Ebola.

Six nurses who treated the girl at a hospital in Kayes had been isolated for treatment, the source said, but noted it was not clear how quickly this was done. The girl first came for treatment on Monday but was not confirmed to have the disease until Thursday.

A further 26 contacts had been isolated at the CNAM national medical centre in Bamako, the source said.

A Malian Health Ministry official, who asked not to be identified, told Reuters that authorities estimated that at least 300 people had been in contact with the infected child.
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Hours before Mali confirmed the case, WHO Assistant Director-General Keiji Fukuda said the agency had "reasonable confidence" that there was not widespread transmission of the Ebola virus into neighbouring countries.

Mali, together with cocoa producer Ivory Coast, has put in place border controls to stem the stop Ebola at its frontiers. However, a visit to Mali's border with Guinea by Reuters this month showed vehicles avoiding a health checkpoint set up by Malian authorities by simply driving through the bush.

Ivory Coast - the world's largest producer of the raw material for chocolate - was also on alert after Guinean authorities informed them that an Ivorian doctor working in Guinea had slipped surveillance and headed for the border after discovering one of his patients had contracted Ebola.

"He disappeared on Wednesday. We don't know if he actually crossed the border," said Daouda Coulibaly, head of the epidemiological monitoring service at the National Health Institute and the leader of the Ebola effort.

"He's a contact person. This isn't a case of infection. We're asking him to contact our health authorities."

reuters.com

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/24/health-ebola-mali-idUSL6N0SJ2CV20141024

**tiny little guy** · October 24, 2014, 02:46 PM

Re: Mali - First confirmed case of Ebola in Kayes - a 2 year old girl from Kissidougou, Guinea

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Reuters is reporting the little girl has died.

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