Posted on 11/17/2014 9:59:21 AM PST by tcrlaf
Fearful of a surge of Ebola cases, Mali placed more than 440 people under surveillance as a US hospital said Monday it had been unable to save the life of a doctor airlifted from Sierra Leone.
Officials in Mali met to consider increasing security at its border following two confirmed cases of Ebola due to infection in neighboring Guinea.
US airports also announced plans to begin enhanced screening of travelers from the west African nation.
Mali has been scrambling to prevent a minor outbreak from turning into a major crisis after the deaths of a Guinean imam and the Malian nurse who treated him in the capital Bamako. A friend who had visited the imam in the Pasteur clinic also died of probable Ebola and a two-year-old child died from the disease in an unconnected case in the western town of Kayes in October.
"The number of contacts followed by health services amounts to 442. They have all been placed under observation for health control," Samba Sow, of the Ebola emergency operations center, said in a statement late Sunday
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Breaking Twitter reports that 6 people have escaped from the Hospital quarantine in Bamako today, and officials are looking for them.
Interesting that the mayo clinic has not a single case.
#1 medical fac. in the world....
strange.
So you want mayo on that?
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