adminMALI’S health minister declared the West African nation free of Ebola on Sunday following a 42-day period without a new case of the deadly virus.Mali recorded six deaths from Ebola, which, according to the World Health Organisation data, has killed more than 8,400 people in neighbouring Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia in the worst epidemic of the viral haemorrhagic fever on record.
“I declare on this day, January 18th, 2015, the end of the end of the Ebola epidemic in Mali,” Ousmane Kone said in a statement in which he thanked the country’s health workers and international partners for their work to halt the outbreak.
Mali’s last infected patient recovered and left hospital early last month. At one point health officials were monitoring more than 300 contact cases. — Reuters.
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