In the United States there is a new Ebola-infected patients: The virus was diagnosed in a New York physician. He had worked for MSF in Guinea. Also, Mali is now affected by the disease: A two year old girl is ill with Ebola fever.

An American doctor from New York who has worked for MSF in South Africa is infected with the Ebola virus. This was New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced at a press conference.

The 33-year-old doctor was on Thursday (local time) brought to a hospital with symptoms typical of Ebola fever, diarrhea and vomiting. He should have come after his return from South Africa in New York with only four people in closer contact: his fiancée, two friends and a taxi driver.

His fiancee and his friends were already quarantined, it said. For the taxi driver there is no risk. Ebola is only contagious when the infected show symptoms first – and that was at the doctor until Thursday the case.

USA Ebola Disease:Bowling the night before the fever

The doctor was flown on 14 October from Guinea to Brussels three days later to New York. He was an experienced doctor and have measured twice a day his body temperature, so the New York Health Department. She confirmed that the man went to his return from West Africa with several New York City subway lines and Wednesday evening had gone to bowling. But he had a fever until Thursday.

“There is no reason for concern,” asserted Mayor De Blasio. “We have a strong team, and we are prepared for months. Now runs on what we have so often practiced.” Ebola about wearing only through bodily fluids, “It is not enough to be in the same subway car or live nearby.”

The apartment of the man in the Harlem district of Manhattan had been sealed, the rest of the house was for the residents but freely accessible. “We had all hoped that this day will never come,” said New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. “But we are here in New York, and people from all over the world come to us. This message could not surprise us. We are as prepared as one can be prepared.” Only at the beginning of the week had in New York, thousands of health care workers, including doctors and nurses, but also cleaning staff and support staff, attended a training for the Ebola emergency.

USA Ebola Disease:First Ebola case in Mali

A first Ebola case, there are now in Mali. Just hours after the deputy director of the World Health Organization (WHO) had said he was confident that there would be no mass distribution of the disease in the neighboring countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, the Ebola virus was first discovered in Mali – at a two year old girl.
Mali is the sixth West African country where the pathogen was detected. Also in Senegal and Nigeria, there had been Ebola cases, both countries are now but as Ebola-free.

The two-year-old comes from Guinea, her mother reportedly died a few weeks ago. Related they took about two weeks ago to Mali and took her to the hospital now there. The condition of the girl had been improved thanks to the rapid treatment, said Mali’s Health Minister Ousmane Kone on state television. The child and all who were in contact with him had been isolated immediately.

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