First, a surgeon who was diagnosed with Ebola in Sierra Leone and then flown to Nebraska over the weekend has died according to Yahoo News. The doctors at Nebraska Medical Center said that he was already in critical condition when he arrived from West Africa.

The 44 year old American citizen was a doctor who had been working in Sierra Leone to help with the situation in West Africa.

In Mali, which is next door to Guinea and also in West Africa, there has been a small cluster outbreak of ebola according to National Public Radio.  When a Mali nurse got sick, tested positive and died in a Pasteur clinic in Mali’s capitol city, they began to look for the patient who transmitted the disease.

They traced it to a 70 year old Guinean Imam who the clinic had treated for what they thought was kidney failure.  He died, and many more were infected because the disease went unnoticed.

A friend of the Imam who visited him at the clinic has since died, and two more people died after exposure to the body.  Another two people who came in contact with him are highly suspected of having contracted the virus as well.

Local authorities even had to disinfect the mosque where his body was prepared for burial.  So today it was announced that Mali has widened its virus watch to 440 people who may have been exposed to the disease.  So far only four have died in Mali, who has worked hard to keep the disease from crossing the border.

It appears this is far from over.