Highlights

• Mali has reported the first cases of local transmission in the country, in the capital Bamako. These cases are not epidemiologically linked to the first case reported on October 27. The Bamako district has been included in the InVS case definition.

• The WHO reports a total of 14,387 cases (suspected, probable, and confirmed) and 5,168 deaths in the four affected countries in West Africa (Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Mali).

• The three most affected countries (Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone) are reporting new cases distributed very unevenly across districts. Nationally, transmission remains most intense in Sierra Leone. The number of new cases in Liberia has stabilized following the decline observed since mid-September.

• The UN, in collaboration with the WHO, has implemented a response plan aimed at optimizing diagnosis, isolation, and treatment of patients, contact tracing, and safe burials.