Ebola virus particlesFLICKR, NIAIDThe Ebola virus continues to wreak havoc on the West African countries of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone: more than 10,000 people have contracted the disease and nearly 5,000 have died, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Saturday (October 25). Outside of these three countries, cases of the virus remain relatively sparse, with a total of just 27 infections and three deaths, but authorities around the world remain cautious.
The African country of Mali, which borders Guinea, joins to the list of countries that have now imported Ebola patients. A 2-year-old girl accompanied her grandmother on bus trip from Guinea to Mali, a several hundred mile journey throughout which the young girl was showing symptoms of an Ebola infection, authorities announced. “WHO is treating the situation in Mali as an emergency,” the agency said in a statement last week (October 24). “The child’s symptomatic state during the bus journey is especially concerning, as it presented multiple opportunities for exposures—including high-risk exposures—involving many people.”
To prevent the importation of Ebola to the United States, governors of New York, New Jersey, Illinois and other states have called for mandatory quarantines for anyone entering the country from ...
