A nurse and the patient he was treating have become the second and third people to die from Ebola in Mali.
The patient, a traditional Muslim healer in his 50s, had recently arrived from Guinea.
He had been treated by the nurse, 25, in the Malian capital,
Bamako, at the Pasteur Clinic, which has now been placed in quarantine.
The deaths are unrelated to Mali's first Ebola case, when a two-year-old girl died from the disease in October.
Nearly 5,000 people have been killed in the West African outbreak, mostly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the outbreak a global health emergency.
The new cases in Mali follow the WHO's confirmation that 25
of the 100 people who were thought to have come into contact with the
two-year-old girl were being released from quarantine.
Ebola is transferred through direct contact with the bodily fluids of infected people
The toddler's case alarmed the authorities in Mali after it was
found she had displayed symptoms whilst travelling through the country
by bus, including the capital, Bamako, on her return from neighbouring
Guinea.
Ebola was first identified in Guinea in March, before it
spread to neighbouring Liberia and Sierra Leone. The WHO says there are
now more than 13,240 confirmed, suspected and probable cases, almost all
in these countries.
Cases have also emerged, though on a much smaller scale, in Nigeria, Senegal, Spain and the US.
Separately on Tuesday, it was confirmed that Morocco would no
longer host the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations because of its fears over
the Ebola outbreak.
In other developments:
- Sierra Leone is offering $5,000 in compensation to the families
of health workers who have died as a result of treating Ebola patients
- Local leaders of a village in Guinea have gone on hunger strike
in protest against the military's presence there after an Ebola
awareness team was killed in September
- The last known person in the US with Ebola, doctor Craig Spencer, has recovered and been released from hospital
Mali launched an emergency response in conjunction with
the WHO when the girl's situation came to light. Her family were among
those released from quarantine on Monday.
Health department spokesman Markatie Daou said around 50
people were still under observation in Kayes, western Mali, and would be
released in a week if they continued to display no symptoms.
Meanwhile, the virus is continuing to spread in Sierra Leone, with almost 300 new infections recorded in the last three days.