--- title: Mali Is Now Ebola-Free According to World Health Organization description: The country has gone 42 days without reporting a new case, the WHO says canonical: https://time.com/3673242/mali-ebola-free/ author: David Stout article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-01-19T06:31:22.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T03:40:53.378Z article:section: Health og:title: Mali Is Ebola-Free og:description: The country has gone 42 days without reporting a new case. og:url: https://time.com/3673242/mali-ebola-free/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt10a6ac45aa3fbb8d/69877aa55f570f183bb14c7e/ebola-in-mali.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1500 og:image:height: 844 og:image:alt: Mali Ebola Spared No More og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Mali Is Ebola-Free twitter:description: The country has gone 42 days without reporting a new case. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt10a6ac45aa3fbb8d/69877aa55f570f183bb14c7e/ebola-in-mali.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Mali Is Now Ebola-Free > Sponsored content. 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The country’s Health Minister Ousmane Kone made an announcement during a national broadcast on Sunday night. During his speech, Kone heaped praise on the country’s health workers and Malian authorities for “weeks of intense work” that led to the result, [according](http://news.yahoo.com/mali-government-un-declare-country-ebola-free-221318115.html) to Agence France-Presse. Mali recorded its first Ebola case in October after a 2-year-old [contracted](http://time.com/3535363/mali-minister-of-health-confirms-first-ebola-case/) the deadly virus. Following the incident, the country launched a massive eradication campaign. In total, the disease only infected eight people in the country, but six of them were killed by it, according to statistics compiled by the WHO. 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