"It's worrying, especially since she was travelling by bus," says Dr Samba Sow from the National Centre for Disease Control CNAMM) in Bamako.
Now, with the help of NGOs coming from Bamako, we are setting up the infrastructure to receive and isolate more patients".
"From the passenger list, where people had put down their phone numbers, we were able to identify and track all the people travelling on the bus," says Dr Lamine Diarra at the health ministry in Bamako.
Niamey in Niger, Bamako in Mali, Antananarivo in Madagascar (in southeast Africa) and Conakry in Guinea are all victims of conflict, terrorism, political instability and ethnic tensions, which stifle their potential for growth.
Nor did he reveal that she and her grandmother had made the 600-mile journey from Guinea to Kayes, via the Malian capital, Bamako, on public buses.
Recent projects include a four-lane asphalt road between Bamako and Dakar, the Ouarzazate solar power generation project in Morocco, and the 620-mile (1,000km) electricity distribution line between Ethiopia and Kenya, which will connect 1.4 million people.
Realising the enormity of the situation, Koungoulba alerted the rapid response team in the Malian capital, Bamako, and dispatched a sample of the girl's blood for immediate testing.
As Malians followed news of the case on television, a regional government car was speeding towards Bamako to intercept the bus that had brought the girl to Kayes before it returned to the capital.
But rescuing Mali from the political mess in Bamako is quite another issue, which he will avoid trying to solve.
For the moment Bamako is safe.
Officials in Bamako say they will insist that Mali must be a secular state but they have made several goodwill gestures.
