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BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali has confirmed a new case of Ebola and says two more suspected patients are being tested, raising concern about a further spread of the disease which has already killed at least five people in the country.
The patient who tested positive "was placed in an isolation center for intensive treatment," according to a government statement. It says officials are monitoring 310 people to limit the spread of the disease.
Mali's five confirmed Ebola deaths are linked to a 70-year-old imam who was brought to the capital, Bamako, from Guinea, where the regional Ebola epidemic first began.
At a regional meeting in September, officials identified more than a dozen countries in West and Central Africa that are at risk of being affected by the ongoing outbreak, the worst ever recorded.
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