Mali releases UN peacekeepers from Ebola quarantine

DEUTSCHE WELLE                                                                                                     Dec. 6, 2014

Mali has released UN peacekeepers after involuntarily quarantining them in an Ebola clinic....

Mali released the peacekeepers from quarantine Saturday. Weeks ago, the Pasteur Clinic, in Mali's capital, Bamako, had admitted the soldiers from the UN's Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) with various injuries connected to their service in the country's restive north. However, officials then locked the soldiers into the clinic with other patients and staff when a nurse died after contracting Ebola from a Muslim cleric who had traveled from Guinea to seek treatment for the virus.

"Having all been placed under observation, the quarantined MINUSMA soldiers showed no symptoms of the disease so they just left the establishment," the mission spokesman said.

Nobody else at the clinic has shown symptoms of Ebola. However, seven people have died of the tropical disease in the West African nation, with the first fatality a 2-year-old girl brought from neighboring Guinea to stay with relatives.

Mali's Health Ministry has announced two new cases: a nurse's 23-year-old fiance and a 27-year-old man who had lost his mother and half-brother to Ebola. According to the World Health Organization, as of December 2, 219 of 227 current contacts linked with the outbreak in Bamako remained under observation.

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