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Ghanaian nurse tests positive for malaria, three more to be tested
Katrina King Created : 10 August 2020
A male nurse from the Ghanaian contingent that arrived in Barbados on July 30, is in the secondary isolation unit after testing positive for malaria.
Acting Chief Medical Officer, Dr Kenneth George urged the public not to be alarmed. He disclosed that the male nurse who tested negative for COVID-19 was being treated for malaria with the appropriate drugs, by international protocols. George explained that malaria was an infectious disease spread through the bites of infected Anopheles mosquitoes.
The Acting Chief Medical Officer stated that Barbados records two to three cases of malaria annually from South America and stressed that the likelihood of malaria developing in Barbados was "extremely small" ...
Ghanaian nurse tests positive for malaria, three more to be tested
Katrina King Created : 10 August 2020
A male nurse from the Ghanaian contingent that arrived in Barbados on July 30, is in the secondary isolation unit after testing positive for malaria.
Acting Chief Medical Officer, Dr Kenneth George urged the public not to be alarmed. He disclosed that the male nurse who tested negative for COVID-19 was being treated for malaria with the appropriate drugs, by international protocols. George explained that malaria was an infectious disease spread through the bites of infected Anopheles mosquitoes.
The Acting Chief Medical Officer stated that Barbados records two to three cases of malaria annually from South America and stressed that the likelihood of malaria developing in Barbados was "extremely small" ...