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Written By: Editorial Team | Updated : October 26, 2014 5:53 PM IST
Mauritania has closed borders with Mali after the first Ebola death case was confirmed on Friday in Mali, a health official said Saturday.
'The authorities of Nouakchott gave instruction to conduct the closing of the all terrestrial points of passage situated on the border,' said Limam Deddeh, physician chief of the border city of Kobonni.
The border closure, which came after the first confirmed Ebola death in Mali, was meant to prevent the spread of the Ebola virus to the local population, said the doctor.
Mali confirmed its victim of Ebola, a two-year-old girl. The World Health Organisation (WHO) informed that the baby girl travelled by a bus coming from Guinea via Mali and showed symptoms of the disease, BBC reported. The girl was being treated in Kayes town, after arriving at a hospital Wednesday. The child had travelled over 1,000 km from Guinea through Bamako to Kayes. Over 40 people known to have come into contact with her have been quarantined. The girl from Guinea died of the Ebola virus disease in the western Malian town of Kayes, which is situated near the Mauritanian border. Know more on this care, here.
The survival rate of this disease
The low survival rate of the Ebola is because the virus has an incubation period of 2 21 days (after which the symptoms start to appear). Also the early symptoms such as fever, headache, stomach pain and drop in blood pressure are not specific, which most people tend to ignore. And till the late symptoms appear, the condition worsens leading to death (which usually occurs due to low blood pressure). The fact that Ebola virus has no cure makes the disease more detrimental.
The only way to improve the survival chances of an Ebola infected person is early diagnosis and immediate treatment. While individuals who are at an increased risk of infection like healthcare workers and family members (friends), should follow precautionary measures to prevent the Ebola infection. Know how to prevent this infection, here.
Further, according to the study published in Lancet Infectious Diseases journal, WHO announced that the total number of Ebola cases is only going to exceed to a whopping 10,000, by December, 2014. Read here to know more.
With inputs from IANS
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