Whether because they did not know, or because they did not want to say, the dignitaries said nothing about a new outbreak that was developing nearby at the country’s top private hospital, the Polyclinique Pasteur. A nurse had fallen ill with Ebola-like symptoms and had been isolated the same evening at the ceremony. He died the following night. This second outbreak is more serious. So far it has claimed several lives, involves many more contacts and raises questions about the preparedness of the Malian authorities even as foreign medical agencies rushed in to help. The nurse probably contracted the disease from an elderly imam, who had fallen ill with an undiagnosed disease in Guinea on October 17th and was brought by car to the Polyclinique Pasteur on October 25th, travelling with four other family members. A battery of tests was conducted, but not for Ebola. He died of kidney failure, a known complication of late-stage Ebola, on October 27th economist/news/middle-east-and-africa/21632883-malis-second-outbreak-ebola-more-worrying-double-whammy?fsrc=nlw|newe|17-11-2014|
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