Mali
has recorded a second Ebola death after a 25-year-old nurse diagnosed
with the deadly disease died, the government said in a statement on
Wednesday.
The nurse was said to have been in contact with a
man who arrived from Guinea and died in late October at the now locked
down Pasteur Clinic.
The government said that
all necessary steps to identify people who had come in contact with the
nurse, who died on Tuesday evening, had been taken. It was not indicated
how many people were being traced.
The case involving the nurse
at a private medical clinic in the capital, Bamako, is unrelated to
Mali’s first Ebola victim, a two-year-old girl from Guinea who died last
month.
Officials said that man believed to have brought the
second case of Ebola to Mali was an Imam from Guinea. He was not tested
for Ebola while he was ill in Mali and his body was returned to Guinea
without necessary precautions for the Ebola virus Disease, raising the
prospect of further possible cases that may result in few weeks.
Credit: Channels News
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