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 Mali recorded six deaths from Ebola, which, according to World
Health Organization data, has killed more than 8,400 people in
neighboring Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia in the worst epidemic
of the viral hemorrhagic fever on record.
"I declare on this day, Jan. 18, 2015, the end of the end of the
Ebola epidemic in Mali," Ousmane Koné said in a statement in which
he thanked the country's health workers and international partners
for their work to halt the outbreak.
Mali's last infected patient recovered and left hospital early last
month. At one point health officials had been monitoring more than
300 contact cases.
Mali became the sixth West African country to record a case of Ebola
when a two-year-old girl from Guinea died in October. It was close
to being declared Ebola free in November before a second wave of
infections.
(Reporting by Adama Diarra; Writing by Joe Bavier; Editing by Alison
Williams)
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