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First case of Ebola confirmed in Mali: health ministry

By AFP
Mali A health worker poses inside a tent in the Ebola treatment unit being preventively set up to host potential Ebola patients at the University Hospital of Yopougon, on October 17, 2014.  By Sia Kambou AFPFile
OCT 24, 2014 LISTEN
A health worker poses inside a tent in the Ebola treatment unit being preventively set up to host potential Ebola patients at the University Hospital of Yopougon, on October 17, 2014. By Sia Kambou (AFP/File)

Bamako (AFP) - Mali's health ministry on Thursday said the country had its first confirmed case of Ebola after a two-year-old girl, who had recently been in Guinea, tested positive for the virus.

"Today Mali has its first imported case of the Ebola virus," the ministry said in a statement. The girl was diagnosed after she arrived at a hospital in the western town of Kayes on Wednesday, it added.

The child and those she has come into contact with have been put in isolation.

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