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Michel
du Cille, a photographer and former photo editor with The Washington Post. (AP
Photo/The Washington Post, Julia Ewan)
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The last Ebola patient
being treated in Mali has survived the disease and has been released, the
Health Ministry said Friday.
AP reports Mali has recorded eight
cases of Ebola, all of them linked to people who crossed from neighboring
Guinea. The country now has no confirmed or suspected cases, according to the
ministry, but authorities are still monitoring 26 people who had contact with
the sick. A person infected with Ebola can take up to 21 days to show symptoms.
The last patient was
discharged on Thursday after several Ebola tests came back negative, the
ministry said in a statement posted on its website.
Because people are
still being monitored and a sick person could cross the border again, the
government warned Malians to remain vigilant.
Countries are only
declared free of Ebola when 42 days — twice the maximum incubation period —
have passed since anyone has had contact with a confirmed or probable case.
In the current
outbreak, Ebola has sickened more than 18,100 people, the vast majority in
Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Of those, about 6,500 have died.
Meanwhile AP also reports a photographer for the
Washington Post sent to cover the outbreak in Liberia died on Thursday after
collapsing while returning on foot from a village where he'd been working, the
newspaper reported.
Michel du Cille, a
three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, died before he reached Phebe Hospital in Bong
County, Information Minister Lewis Brown said Friday.
It took two hours, traveling on dirt roads, to get Du Cille to the hospital
after collapsed, according to the paper.
Arrangements are being made
to bring his body to Monrovia, Liberia's capital, Brown said.
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