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The continuing Ebola epidemic in Guinea has set back the country’s fight against malaria, experts said. They estimate 74,000 cases of malaria went untreated in 2014 because clinics were either closed or patients were too scared to seek help.
They warn that malaria deaths since the Ebola outbreak began will far exceed the number of Ebola deaths in the country - which now stand at 2,444. Their report is in the Lancet Infectious Diseases journal. Both Ebola and malaria cause fever.
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