The latest data from the World Health Organization, WHO, says that more than 7,500 people have died of Ebola, mostly scattered in several West African countries such as Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone. However, it turns out there is another disease that is more deadly than Ebola. The disease is malaria.
The danger, is the magnitude of the victim because malaria is because during this time everyone was too focused to combat Ebola. Similarly, as quoted from Fox News, Tuesday (12/30/2014).
"It would be a huge failure for everyone if many people died of malaria in the middle of the Ebola epidemic," said Dr. Bernard Bahlen, deputy director of the US President's Malaria Initiative.
In Guinea, last year the number of malaria deaths reached 15 thousand to 14 thousand of them are still under the age of 5 years. 12 million people do not have access to health centers so that death is not counted in the 15 thousand deaths.
As a comparison, based on data from the World Health Organization, to date approximately 1,600 people died from Ebola Guinea.
Malaria alone is the leading cause of death in infants in Guinea and finished 2nd leading cause of death after AIDS.
A few days ago, one of the Cuban doctors infected with Ebola. Apparently, one of the Cuban doctors were also affected by malaria. Fortunately, one of the private hospitals have adequate equipment so that the doctor can be saved.
Ebola and malaria itself has a lot of the same symptoms. For example, fever, dizziness headache and muscle aches. While malaria caused by mosquito bites, Ebola is only caused by the infection of their body fluids that have been previously infected.
Because of this, many people who think they are exposed to Ebola when exposed to malaria. For menanggulianginya, 1.5 million antimalarial drugs have been distributed to various places to prevent the disease from spreading and also treat those already infected.
