--- title: Ebola is Confirmed in Mali description: First case is a 2-year-old canonical: https://time.com/3535363/mali-minister-of-health-confirms-first-ebola-case/ author: Alexandra Sifferlin article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-23T21:49:40.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T10:59:16.300Z article:section: Health og:title: Ebola is Confirmed in Mali og:description: First case is a 2-year-old og:url: https://time.com/3535363/mali-minister-of-health-confirms-first-ebola-case/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ebola is Confirmed in Mali twitter:description: First case is a 2-year-old twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Mali Minister of Health Confirms First Ebola Case by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Oct 23, 2014 9:49 PM UTC by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Oct 23, 2014 9:49 PM UTC Mali’s Minister of Health said the country has its first case of Ebola in a tweet Thursday. > [](https://twitter.com/etiooo/status/525392303910039553) The patient is reportedly a two-year-old girl who recently came into the country from Guinea, [Reuters reported](The%20patient is a two-year-old girl who recently came into the country from Guinea.). The country borders Guinea, where the Ebola outbreak started. Mali is one of the first countries to [start experimental vaccine trials](http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/10/ebola-vaccine-mali-trialled-health-workers). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3535363/mali-minister-of-health-confirms-first-ebola-case/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3535363/mali-minister-of-health-confirms-first-ebola-case/"},"headline":"Mali Minister of Health Confirms First Ebola Case","datePublished":"2014-10-23T21:49:40.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T10:59:16.300Z","description":"First case is a 2-year-old","url":"https://time.com/3535363/mali-minister-of-health-confirms-first-ebola-case/","keywords":["ebola","Mali","Guinea","Ebola outbreak"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alexandra Sifferlin","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/ebola/","name":"ebola"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3535363/mali-minister-of-health-confirms-first-ebola-case/","name":"Mali Minister of Health Confirms First Ebola Case"}}]}] ```