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    Posted: October 23 2014 at 2:40pm
just found on breakingnews.com 2 year old child has Ebola in Mali
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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-29750723
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/23/us-health-ebola-mali-idUSKCN0IC2KS20141023
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You are on it waterboy.
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BAMAKO (Reuters) - Mali said on Thursday it had detected its first confirmed case of Ebola, making it the sixth West African country to be touched by the worst outbreak on record of the deadly hemorrhagic fever.

Health Minister Ousmane Kone told state television that the patient in the western region of Kayes was a two-year-old girl who had recently arrived from neighboring Guinea, where the outbreak began.

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Originally posted by onefluover onefluover wrote:

Health Minister Ousmane Kone told state television that the patient in the western region of Kayes was a two-year-old girl who had recently arrived from neighboring Guinea, where the outbreak began...

...with a two year old back in December.
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"Any community that fails to prepare, with the expectation that the federal government will come to the rescue, will be tragically wrong." Michael Leavitt, HHS Secretary.
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Yes Waterboy I agree with one flu you always on top of the news.


The World Health Organization had drawn up a list of 15 countries that were most at risk of an outbreak of Ebola virus disease. Mali was one of their top risks because of strong trade, and its border with Guinea.

http://www.bmj.com/content/349/bmj.g6305.long

The 15 were Mali, Ivory Coast, Senegal, and Guinea-Bissau (the four countries bordering the three affected countries) and Benin, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, South Sudan, Nigeria, Mauritania, Togo, and Burkina Faso.

According to WHO they have been preemptive in this and have been working with these countries so they are ready to "detect, inform, assess, and respond.”

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WHO “ramp up” its efforts with these countries, running a simulation exercise to test their response to an outbreak. When asked if she thought that the four bordering countries had undetected or unreported cases of Ebola virus disease, she said that the countries had already been sounding alerts about suspected cases, which provided some level of reassurance.

Who have provided these countries with PPE in advance and provided full training in contact tracing and infection control.   Hoping to be one step ahead of outward spread.

Well we will see if this forward planning and preemptive strike works in Mali.

Aside from that I hope the wee girl is OK, poor wee soul.
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Ebola case reported in Mali


Health minister says two-year-old girl has been diagnosed with disease after returning from neighbouring Guinea
Mali’s health minister says the west African country has confirmed its first case of Ebola. In the announcement on Malian state television, Ousmane Kone said that the patient was a two-year-old girl who had come from neighbouring Guinea.

The child was brought to a hospital in the Malian town of Kayes on Wednesday, and her blood sample tested positive for the virus.

If the girl’s condition is confirmed, Mali will become the sixth west African country to report an Ebola case – though nearly all cases and all deaths have occurred in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. Senegal and Nigeria had imported cases, but both have since been declared Ebola-free.

According to the World Health Organisation, the disease has killed at least 4,877 people and infected 9,936.


http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/23/mali-first-case-ebola
I do apologize for my poor english. Prepare for the Worst and Hope for the Best!
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Ebola crisis: Dozens monitored after first Mali case
 
24 October 2014
 

The patient is a two-year-old girl who recently arrived from Guinea, which along with Liberia and Sierra Leone has seen most of the 4,800 deaths.

The World Health Organization (WHO) said it was sending more experts to Mali to help contain the outbreak.

It has also announced that hundreds of thousands of vaccine doses should be available in the first half of 2015.

WHO Assistant Director Dr Marie-Paule Kieny told a news conference in Geneva that pharmaceutical companies were "committed to ramping up production".

Separately, a New York doctor who recently returned from Guinea has tested positive for the disease.

In other developments:

  • An international team of scientists has been set up to determine the effectiveness of using the blood of Ebola survivors as a treatment. It is hoped the antibodies used by the immune system to fight Ebola can be transferred from a survivor to a patient
  • European Union leaders agreed to increase their financial help on fighting Ebola in West Africa from some 600 million euros ($758m; £743m) to one billion
WHO reinforcements

With the latest case, Mali becomes the sixth West African country to be affected by the outbreak, although Senegal and Nigeria have since been declared virus-free by the WHO.

Malian authorities have now quarantined and are monitoring 43 people who have been in contact with the infected girl. They include 10 health workers.

The girl is being treated in the western town of Kayes. A statement from Mali's health ministry said her condition was improving considerably, thanks to good treatment.

She was brought to a local hospital on Wednesday and her blood sample was Ebola-positive, Malian Health Minister Ousmane Kone said.

People are afraid in Mali's capital, Bamako, but life is carrying on as normal. A few people have stopped shaking hands but physically greeting people is an important part of life in Mali and for most this has not changed.

Some hotels have placed bottles of anti-bacterial gels at their entrances but for ordinary Malians, gel remains too expensive. The government has been running public information broadcasts telling people to wash their hands with soap. But though soap is not expensive, most still wash their hands with water alone.

Many Malians have friends and family in Guinea and several buses and taxis travel between the two countries each day.

With the support of the WHO, Mali's health system has been preparing for an outbreak of Ebola for several months. But there is a culture here of visiting people when they are sick to wish them a speedy recovery.

This will have to change if Ebola becomes more widespread.

The WHO has three experts in Mali evaluating its ability to cope with Ebola and will send at least four more over the next few days, spokeswoman Fadela Chaib said.

The girl's mother died in Guinea a few weeks ago and the child was then brought by relatives to Mali.

With porous borders, countries neighbouring Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia are on high alert for possible imported cases of the virus, says BBC Africa health correspondent Anne Soy.
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2-year-old girl who was Mali's 1st Ebola case has died, according to a health official - @Reuters

see original on twitter.com
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Oh no! so sad Unhappy
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Yes.
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Off topic but the edited heading of this thread is a perfect example of why Albert has so stressed that these headings should be left as originally posted. When you read through the posts it gives the feeling of the posters to the thread not realizing the child had already passed away. My suggestion is to leave the heading as is and begin a new thread that she passed away. Then 100 years from now there is still no confusion.
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I agree that the original title should remain, but could be edited to ADD to it.  For example:

Two year old with Ebola in Mali-update: died 10/24

Or something like that-the original title is still there, but the outcome has been added.  Not everyone wants to read every item in every thread.  Especially the cases that turn out to be false alarms, I hate having to read an entire thread about someone who might have ebola, only to find out that they were cleared.  It would be so easy to add it to the original title.

I know, we all have our opinions on this, and that is mineSmile
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The poor baby.

How she must have suffered traveling 1000km on crowded buses, while that devastating disease ravaged her little body.
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How sad
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Originally posted by onefluover onefluover wrote:

Off topic but the edited heading of this thread is a perfect example of why Albert has so stressed that these headings should be left as originally posted. When you read through the posts it gives the feeling of the posters to the thread not realizing the child had already passed away. My suggestion is to leave the heading as is and begin a new thread that she passed away. Then 100 years from now there is still no confusion.
 
I agree with the first part of what you say!  Headlines should be left as is.  Disagree respectfully with the starting of a new thread to announce an update.  It's not that much trouble to scroll down & see if there are updates.  That's what I do.  But if you must start a new post that is still better than changing the title.
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Originally posted by Tinijocaro Tinijocaro wrote:

I agree that the original title should remain, but could be edited to ADD to it.  For example:

Two year old with Ebola in Mali-update: died 10/24

Or something like that-the original title is still there, but the outcome has been added.
 
Depending on how long the title already is, an updated added might not be possible.  There are only so many characters allowed on that subject line... I've never counted but I have been frustrated by it before when I couldn't get my whole title in there.
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