Also there is fighting with Islamic terrorists in northern Mali.
Posted on 10/24/2014 8:12:49 PM PDT by RightGeek
Health officials fear many people may have been exposed to Mali's first Ebola victim - a two-year-old girl.
She recently arrived from Guinea, one of the worst affected countries, and has since died.
The girl showed symptoms, including a bleeding nose, while travelling on a public bus through several towns, the World Health Organization (WHO) said.
Forty-three people, including 10 health workers, who came into contact with her have been identified and isolated.
The girl was being treated in the western town of Kayes, after arriving at a hospital on Wednesday.
The child had travelled more than 1,000 km (600 miles) from Guinea through the capital, Bamako, to Kayes.
"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 WHO said.
The girl's mother died in Guinea a few weeks ago and the child was then brought by relatives to Mali.
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Also there is fighting with Islamic terrorists in northern Mali.
Put the suspected infectious folk on Obola’s fast track visa list and get them here as soon as possible!
OMG!!!
We’re all gonna die....!!!!
AhhhHHHH! !!!
Well have any of the terrorists gotten Ebola?
Do we have to get our African Ebola news from the BBC now? I had not heard this from a US source, not even Drudge.
The article comments at the Daily Mail are usually a hoot AND most are spot on politically.. lot of conservatives left in Britain .. no wonder UKIP is kickin' ass lately.
The FEC is going to regulate political speech on the internet they say...it was on Drudge a little while ago.
I’ll check those two out.
What region in PA are you in??? Saw the flag..
I thought Monica Lewinski said she was Patient Zero.
Ebola really sucks, but it was no match for Monica.
A 2 year old child. This is an ugly virus and we need a vaccine.
Goodness, what a horrific mess this is. Just so sad for all involved. Bless that poor child-to lose a mama & then be so sick. Awful.
It’s stories like these that just break my heart.
If my daughter died, of course I’d go and collect my granddaughter and bring her home. And now many, many people are threatened.
People being people is what’s killing them.
We talk a good game about how *we’d* be smarter. How we’re so much more advanced in the West.
But then you watch cops naturally putting their gloves in a public garbage can and hospital staff bewildered by a disease outside of their norm and I do not see it.
In times of stress, people fall back on their training. That’s why people in a burning plane will take the time to gather their bags from an overhead compartment and wait their turn for the exit. Even to the point of their own doom, people fall back on their training.
We’re still people. And that’s why great leadership is so vital when things go bad.
Round and round it globally goes where will it stop nobody knows. That little girl is now an Angel where Ebola can never touch her again.
See? Unlike Mali, The US need not worry about transmission by way of public transportation, because “our” transportation system is sooo advanced, compared to the third world, just like our health-care system. /sarc
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