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

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A suspected case of Ebola in Kayes

Posted: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 5:18 p.m. Views: 132

A suspected case of Ebola fever was reported in Kayes. A 3 year old girl whose father died in Guinea Conakry was admitted to the regional hospital. People who have approached her were placed in quarantine in the facility. A technical team of Bamako has to carry out blood tests to check the presence or not of the Ebola virus.
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http://www.studiotamani.org/index.php/societe/2053-un-cas-suspect-d-ebola-a-kayes

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Suspected case of Ebola in Kayes: time is not to panic!

Wednesday, October 22, 2014 6:38 p.m.

A suspected case of Ebola was reported today in Kayes. The suspect is a child of 2 years 6 months and he comes from Guinea Conakry. The child is currently isolated and a team is expected to examine the patient. But this is no time to panic. The authorities had taken many steps to prevent the disease and the virus can not to enter the Kayes region.
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http://kayesinfo.net/index.php/component/k2/item/1418-cas-suspect-d-ebola-a-kayes

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Epidemic: a suspected case of Ebola reported in Kayes

By Malijet - Date: 1 hour ago

The information was first given by our colleagues at Studio tamani before being confirmed on the site of Kayesinfo : a suspected case of Ebola was first discovered in Kayes region. According to reports, "it is a 3 year old girl whose father died in Guinea Conakry. She came to Mali with her aunt (living in Mali) that traveled to Guinea to fetch the girl in question. The girl and her aunt passed through Bamako in the neighborhood of Bagadadji then they went to Kayes. Admitted yesterday Tuesday to 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. "

This means that for now, nothing is confirmed yet and we must cross our fingers in anticipation, hope, of a negative result.
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http://www.malijet.com/la_societe_m...li/114415-un-cas-suspect-d-ebola-a-kayes.html

 

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

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

http://www.malijet.com/la_societe_m...li/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. "

 

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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

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

 

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Re: Mali - Confirmed Ebola case

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Media report confirming this case. http://www.rfi.fr/contenu/ticker/premier-cas-ebola-confirme-mali-le-ministere-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.

 

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

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.


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

 

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

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

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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

http://www.sante.gov.ml/index.php?o...-et-de-lhygiene-publique-&catid=78&Itemid=120

 

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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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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)

 

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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."

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

 

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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

 

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"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.

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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.

http://guineenews.org/ebola-un-prem...rtant-kissidougou-na-jamais-eu-de-cas-debola/

 

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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/2014/10/24/3381845/doctors-without-borders-ebola.html#storylink=cpy

 

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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."

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

 

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Reuters is reporting the little girl has died.

 

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Poor little kid. I hope they stop this disease soon.

 

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Reuters is reporting the little girl has died.

That makes this story of the grandmother traveling more than 1100 km on a bus to bring her home even more heartbreaking. It looks like she was originally diagnosed as having typhoid fever.

Press Release from the WHO:
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/ebola/24-october-2014/en/

Mali?s Ministry of Health has confirmed the country?s first case of Ebola virus disease. The Ministry received positive laboratory results, from PCR testing, on Thursday and informed WHO immediately. In line with standard procedures, samples are being sent to a WHO-approved laboratory for further testing and diagnostic work.

Details about the case

In telephone conversation on Thursday night, health officials gave WHO the following details about the case, which is currently undergoing intense investigation.

The patient is a two-year-old girl, who recently arrived from Guinea accompanied by her grandmother. The child?s first contact with the country?s health services occurred on 20 October, when she was examined by a health care worker at Quartier Plateau in Kayes, a city in western Mali on the Senegal River.

Kayes has a population of around 128 000 people. It is located about 600 kilometres from the capital city of Bamako and lies near the border between Mali and Senegal.

The health-care worker referred the grandmother and child to the Fousseyni Daou Hospital, in the same city, where she was admitted to the paediatric ward on the following day, on 21 October. Symptoms on admission included a fever of 39?C, cough, bleeding from the nose, and blood in the stools.

Test results were negative for malaria, but positive for typhoid fever. The child received paracetamol, but did not improve. Further testing at the country?s SEREFO laboratory confirmed Ebola virus as the causative agent on 23 October.

Initial investigation of this case ? the first confirmed in Mali ? has revealed the extensive travel history of the child and her grandmother. The grandmother travelled from her home in Mali to attend a funeral in the town of Kissidougou, in southern Guinea.

WHO is seeking confirmation of media reports that the funeral was for the child?s mother, who is said to have shown Ebola-like symptoms before her death. These and other facts will be communicated as they are confirmed.

Additional facts communicated to WHO

On 19 October, the grandmother left Guinea to return to Mali, taking the child with her. The case history revealed that bleeding from the nose began while both were still in Guinea, meaning that the child was symptomatic during their travels through Mali.

Travel was by public transport through Keweni, Kankan, Sigouri, and Kouremale to Bamako. The two stayed in Bamako for two hours before travelling on to Kayes. Multiple opportunities for exposure occurred when the child was visibly symptomatic.

Prompt emergency response

WHO is treating the situation in Mali as an emergency. The child?s symptomatic state during the bus journey is especially concerning, as it presented multiple opportunities for exposures ? including high-risk exposures - involving many people.

Continued high-level vigilance is essential, as the government is fully aware.

The child is being treated in isolation and staff have received training in appropriate procedures for safe management. The initial investigation identified 43 close and unprotected contacts, including 10 health-care workers, who are also being monitored in isolation.

The authorities in Mali have acted swiftly, also in communicating their immediate needs to WHO. These needs include training in infection prevention and control, adequate supplies of personal protective equipment, and assistance with contact tracing and overall investigation of the event.

Fortunately, key staff from WHO and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were already in Mali assisting with the country?s preparedness measures, should an imported case occur.

The WHO team already on the ground includes an infection control expert and a logistician. These and other staff are now being repurposed to assist in a surge response to the outbreak. WHO is urgently deploying a rapid response team comprising experts in clinical management, epidemiology, contact tracing, logistics and social mobilization.

WHO and the Ministry of Health see a need to accelerate the completion of an isolation facility in Bamako, and WHO has offered its support. In addition, the public needs to be informed of the situation as it evolves, including facts about the emergency actions already under way.

Outbreaks in other parts of West Africa have demonstrated how fear and anxiety, fuelled by misinformation and disinformation, if left unchecked, can be a major barrier to even the best-orchestrated containment efforts.

Both Senegal and Nigeria, two countries now declared free of Ebola virus transmission, used effective community information and education initiatives, often conducted as house-to-house campaigns, as an integral component of the outbreak response.

 

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Re: Mali - 2 year old girl dies

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(Reuters) - A two-year-old girl who was Mali's first confirmed case of Ebola has died, a local health official said on Friday.

The health official, who asked not to be named, said she died in the western Malian town of Kayes at around 1600 GMT.

There was no immediate official comment from health authorities but Oumar Sylla, a Kayes resident, said local radio stations were reporting the information.

http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/10/24/uk-health-ebola-mali-girl-idINKCN0ID2AG20141024

 

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WHO: Multiple opportunities for girl in Mali with Ebola to expose others

Bamako, Mali (CNN) -- A 2-year-old in Mali with Ebola had multiple opportunities to expose others to the virus, according to the World Health Organization.

The girl first went to a clinic Tuesday after entering the country from Guinea with her grandmother, WHO Assistant Director-General Marie-Paule Kieny said at a news conference in Geneva, Switzerland.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/24/world/africa/mali-ebola/

 

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A two-year-old girl who was Mali's first confirmed case of Ebola has died, according to a health official.

The official, who asked not to be named, told Reuters that the toddler died in the western Malian town of Kayes at around 4pm (GMT), where she was being treated in isolation.

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"The child's symptomatic state during the bus journey is especially concerning, as it presented multiple opportunities for exposures - including high-risk exposures - involving many people," the agency said.

The girl's diagnosis was delayed after she tested positive for typhoid. When her condition failed to improve, she was also tested for Ebola.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...twoyearold-dies-of-ebola-in-mali-9817181.html