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Malaria may have killed more people in Guinea than Ebola, say researchers
Jun 24 2015 - 7:45pm
Researchers cautioned that the Ebola outbreak in Guinea may have led to 74,000 new cases of malaria going untreated, causing a spike in malaria deaths likely to be much higher than the Ebola toll.
Mateusz Plucinski, of the U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, and the lead author of the research, disclosed this on Wednesday in Washington.
He said the report published in the medical journal Lancet Infectious Diseases, showed that during the Ebola outbreak in 2014, visits to health centres in Guinea fell by 42 per cent in the worst affected areas...
Malaria may have killed more people in Guinea than Ebola, say researchers
Jun 24 2015 - 7:45pm
Researchers cautioned that the Ebola outbreak in Guinea may have led to 74,000 new cases of malaria going untreated, causing a spike in malaria deaths likely to be much higher than the Ebola toll.
Mateusz Plucinski, of the U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, and the lead author of the research, disclosed this on Wednesday in Washington.
He said the report published in the medical journal Lancet Infectious Diseases, showed that during the Ebola outbreak in 2014, visits to health centres in Guinea fell by 42 per cent in the worst affected areas...