Officials Sound Alarm About Potential Ebola Crisis in Mali

Leaders of the United Nations and the World Health Organization expressed new alarm on Friday about Ebola’s tenacity in Africa and in particular its potential to ravage a fourth country, Mali, where they said hundreds of people had been exposed to an infected cleric who died last month.

At a webcast news conference from the World Bank offices in Washington, the United Nations’ secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, and the W.H.O.’s director general, Dr. Margaret Chan, also appeared to reset their schedules for containing the Ebola virus, which has sickened at least 15,351 people and killed 5,459, according to a… (read more)