Mali Declares Self Ebola-free

Mali has declared itself Ebola-free. Heath Minister Ousmane Kone made the announcement Sunday, saying there have been no new cases in 42 days - the World Health Organization's timeframe for declaring the end of an epidemic. A new WHO report says Mali moved quickly to contain an outbreak when the first case was reported in October in a two-year-old girl from Guinea. It said, in all, six people in Mali died from the disease. The WHO reported last week that the Ebola outbreak in...

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