Mali has reported its second and third Ebola deaths, this time in the capital Bamako. Meanwhile, Doctors Without Borders staff at south Sierra Leone’s only Ebola treatment center have gone on strike over hazard pay.
Authorities in Mali have reported two new deaths from the Ebola virus in the capital Bamako, the Associated Press reported.
A police officer guards the quarantined Pasteur Clinic in Bamako Nov. 12.
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The new cases are not believed to be linked to the only other known case in the nation.
The cases mark a setback for authorities, who just one day ago said said there had been no other reported cases or fatalities there since a two-year-old who traveled to Guinea died from the virus in late October.
The deceased are a traditional Muslim healer in his 50s and a 25-year-old nurse who treated him, the BBC reported.
They were treated at Bamako's Pasteur Clinic, which has now been placed under quarantine. Mali's Communications Minister Mahamadou Camara said the nurse died Tuesday, and tests later confirmed she had Ebola, AP reported.
The nurse's patient was a Guinean national who came to the clinic on Oct. 25. The head of the clinic said he arrived late at night, and was so ill he was unable to speak or give information about his symptoms.
"His family did not give us all the information that would have led us to suspect Ebola," Dramane Maiga told AP.
The new Malian cases come shortly after the World Health Organization confirmed that 25 of the 100 patients who were suspected of coming into contact with the 2-year-old Ebola sufferer had been released from quarantine.
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