As Mali confirmed the death of a second Ebola patient (a nurse), its priority now is to contain the spread of the terrible disease.
The nurse was said to have died after treating a man who arrived at a clinic from Guinea. The man who was suffering from Kidney failure is believed to have died of the Ebola virus.
The Bamako clinic where the man was treated has been quarantined.
This is the first Ebola virus contamination within the Malian territory. The first Ebola patient was a 2-year-old Fanta Conte who was already sick of the Ebola virus before her grand mother brought her into Mali from Guinea.
There was public outrage when it was discovered that the little girl had travelled with other members of her family in a public vehicle while she was already symptomatic. They were said to have also spent two hours in Bamako visiting relatives in a house of 25 persons.
The virus kills 70 per cent of its victims, often shutting down their organs and causing unstoppable bleeding.
The Ebola virus has killed more than 5,000 victims and infected more than 10,000. World Health Organization (WHO) have said the actual scale of the epidemic could be much greater.
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