#Ebola Epidemic In West Africa: Mali Confirms First Ebola Infection!

As the Ebola virus epidemic continue to ravage the West African sub continent and beyond, all efforts aimed at containing it within the already infected countries seems to be proving abortive.
 
Today the Mali government has confirmed the first case of Ebola in the country.

It said a two-year-old girl had tested positive for the haemorrhagic virus. She recently returned from the neighbouring Guinea, according to news report by the BBC.

More than 4,800 people have died of Ebola - mainly in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone - since March.

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