Thousands of malaria deaths by Ebola outbreak – Telegraaf.nl

LONDON –

The Ebola outbreak has resulted last year in West Africa for more deaths than previously thought. Researchers from Imperial College London namely saw that the epidemic also caused a significant increase in malaria. They published here on Friday in the influential journal The Lancet

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By the outbreak of Ebola plunged the entire health system in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. This allowed malaria patients are not properly treated medically and too little mosquito nets were distributed.

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In total, died in 2014 almost 11,000 more people to malaria than in other years. That’s about the same as the number of people died of Ebola. The researchers compared the 2014 figures with the number of malaria deaths in the last fifteen years.

Saturday is World Malaria Day. The World Health Organization (WHO) otherwise try to draw extra attention to malaria. According to WHO, come every year 600,000 people die from infectious disease.

But there is hope. Pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline in October will get international permission to distribute the world’s first vaccine against malaria in Africa. The vaccine, RTS, S is called, is designed specifically for children and must offer four-year protection against the deadly disease. The pharmaceutical company has thirty years working on the vaccine

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