The girl became ill with Ebola after traveling to neighboring Guinea.
Workers in Sierra Leone carry the body of an Ebola victim on Oct. 7.
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Government officials made the announcement on state TV Thursday, saying a 2-year-old girl had tested positive for the virus following a visit to Guinea, the Associated Press reported. The girl was at a hospital in the town of Kayes on Wednesday, where she was first tested. The town lies in the country's southwest region, nearest the border with Senegal.
Mali shares borders with Guinea and Senegal, both countries that have seen Ebola cases.
Guinea has seen 904 deaths from Ebola, and 1,540 cases. In Senegal, one person contracted the disease, but there have been no deaths.
The World Health Organization had announced on Thursday, before the little girl's case was revealed, that they were sending monitors to Mali and Ivory Coast for fear they would become a new front in the West Africa epidemic.
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