Bamako, Mali - Mali ensuring first tularan ebola, Thursday, thus becoming the sixth state untouched West African history's worst outbreak of dengue fever, which has killed almost 4,900 people.
Mali's Health Minister, Ousmane Kone, state television said, patients in the western city, Kayes, it is a two-year-old girl, who had just arrived from neighboring Guinea, where ebola begins.
"The condition of the girl, according to our service, improved handling thanks to the quick," the minister told state television.
A health ministry official, who asked not to be named, said the girl's mother died in Guinea a few weeks ago and the baby was taken by relatives to the Mali capital of Bamako, where he stayed for 10 days in the environment Bagadadji before heading to Kayes.
A ministry statement said the girl, who comes from the city of Guinea, Kissidougou, received at the Hospital Fousseyni Daou Kayes on Wednesday night, where he was immediately tested for Ebola.
People who come in contact with patients in the Kayes have also been identified and placed under surveillance, said the minister. But he appealed to anyone who believes they may have contact with the girl to move forward, inform yourself.
A large number of deaths and nearly 10,000 cases of the disease has spread in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
The outbreak also spread to smaller Senegal and Nigeria, Africa's most populous, but they have been declared Ebola-free by the WHO.
Official figures are known based on the report and the actual death toll may be three times as much, according to the WHO this week.
A completely separate outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Central Africa, also seems to have been resolved.
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