A leading malaria control expert has said efforts to contain the disease may be jeopardised by the Ebola crisis.<\/p>\n
Dr Fatoumata Nafo-Traor\u00e9, who heads the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnership, said after visiting west Africa: “Understandably, all the health workers’ attention is on Ebola.”<\/p>\n
Children’s wards which used to be full of malaria patients were becoming “ghost areas,” she added.<\/p>\n
In 2012, malaria killed 7,000 people in the three countries worst hit by Ebola.<\/p>\n
Most of these will have been young children – although malaria is curable.<\/p>\n
The disease caused almost 4,000 deaths in Sierra Leone in 2012 – as well as around 2,000 deaths in Liberia and approximately 1,000 in Guinea.<\/p>\n
SOURCE BBC World<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A leading malaria control expert has said efforts to contain the disease may be jeopardised by the Ebola crisis. Dr Fatoumata Nafo-Traor\u00e9, who heads the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnership, said after visiting west Africa: “Understandably, all the health workers’ attention is on Ebola.” Children’s wards which used to be full of malaria patients were … Continue reading Ebola crisis ‘may harm malaria fight’<\/span>