The Ebola epidemic continues to grow and spread across Africa. Now Mali has said that it discovered three suspected victims of Ebola. So far, the deadly disease that has killed 84 people in Guinea.

“Three suspected cases of haemorrhagic fever have been detected in the country. Samples have been taken and sent abroad for analysis,” the country’s Health Minister Ousmane Kone told AFP.

While the results are pending from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where the samples were sent, the patients were placed in isolation and are receiving medication.

The test results will be made public as soon as they are known.

Mali borders Guinea, where the epidemic has killed 84 people out of 134 cases registered since January, according to the latest Guinean government report.

And in Liberia seven people are dealing with the first case of suspected Ebola to have originated within its own borders.

“If confirmed, the case in the eastern town of Tapeta would mark a worrying development in the fight against Ebola, as cases so far have been attributed to people returning with the infection from Guinea,” reports Business Standard