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Another Cuban health worker dies of malaria in Africa

Xinhua, January 19, 2015 Adjust font size:

A Cuban male nurse, who was sent to Sierra Leone as part of a team to help fight Ebola, has died of malaria, the Cuban Health Ministry confirmed on Sunday.

Reinaldo Villafranca Antigua, 43, died on Sunday of cerebral complications caused by malaria in a hospital in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone and one of the Ebola hotspots, the ministry said.

He presented the first symptoms of Ebola and was later confirmed to have malaria.

This is the second Cuban health staff helping the fight against the Ebola epidemic to die of Malaria in West Africa. The first, the economist Jorge Juan Guerra Rodriguez, died of the disease last October.

Cuba has sent, so far, more than 200 male doctors and nurses to the countries seriously affected by the Ebola virus: Sierra Leone (165), Liberia (53) and Guinea (38). Endi