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| Ebola: 2nd case hits Mali with death of Nurse |
| 2014-11-12 |
 AFP yarn doesn't say if the nurse was IN Mali when she died.Bamako (AFP) - Mali has suffered a new case of Ebola infection -- separate from its only other one detected last month -- with the death of a nurse who treated a patient from Guinea, medical sources said late Tuesday. "The nurse, who had been in contact with a Guinean national who died of the illness, died in turn," the head of the Pasteur Clinic in the capital Bamako told AFP, adding that tests had confirmed the Ebola virus. |
| Posted by:anon1 |
| #5 Update: NY Times reports the mosque in Bamako is now under quarantine and shut with armed guards. 3 clinics, same. 10 UN peacekeepers may have been exposed. |
| Posted by: anon1 2014-11-12 23:37 |
| #4 Update: the WHO is now reporting 4 deaths in Mali of which one was the nurse |
| Posted by: anon1 2014-11-12 20:49 |
| #3 Was he a good grand imam or a bad grand imam? If he was bad imam it might provide a net benefit to the human species if he infected a few degrees of separation - assuming it could be stopped at that point. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2014-11-12 20:42 |
| #2 Update: not just an imam - a Grand Imam. He got sick in Guinea. His condition did not improve, so he was transferred to a clinic across the border in Mali. He and 4 family members drove to Bamako to seek treatment at the Pasteur Clinic on 25 October. There he died from kidney failure, 27 October. A friend who visited him at the clinic also died abruptly from an undiagnosed disease. Both are considered probable Ebola cases but no samples are available for testing. The Grand Imam's body was taken to a mosque in Bamako for ritual washing. The body was returned to the native village of Kourémalé for funeral and burial. WHO staff assume that many mourners attended the ceremonies. He might not have had ebola - after all the 2-year-old girl provided no more infections and may have been a false positive. But if he did, his body would have been teeming with virus and touched by many. |
| Posted by: anon1 2014-11-12 19:55 |
| #1 Reuters has more: Nurse died in capital city Bamako after treating a Guinean Imam who also died. The Imam's body was sent back to Guinea with no precautions taken. Muslim tradition is to wash the body and bury within 24 hours (i think) So body would have been on first bus / plane out of town and then washed by people who may now be infected. |
| Posted by: anon1 2014-11-12 08:16 |