A two-year-old girl is the first person to test positive to the virus in Mali. It was reported that she recently returned from the Guinea.
More than 4,800 people have died of Ebola - mainly in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone - since March.
Meanwhile, an international team of scientists has been set up to determine the effectiveness of using the blood of Ebola survivors as a treatment.
'Great concern'
Speaking on state television on Thursday, the country's Health Minister Ousmane Kone said the infected girl is in isolation and was being treated in the western town of Kayes.
She was brought to a local hospital on Wednesday tested positive
this case has made Mali the sixth Mali West African country to be hit by the Ebola outbreak - Earlier this week, Nigeria was declared virus-free by the World Health Organization (WHO).
May God save us from this deadly virus.
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