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Malaria Parasites Amid Red Blood Cells (Photograph by Albert Bonniers
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A Cuban health worker sent
to Sierra Leone as part of a team to help fight Ebola has died of malaria.
Cuban state television said
Reinaldo Villafranca died Sunday in a hospital in Sierra Leone's capital. The
33-year-old Villafranca had a degree in nursing, according to AP.
He showed symptoms of an
illness on Jan. 17. Tests came up negative for Ebola but positive for malaria.
State television said his condition deteriorated on Sunday.
Villafranca is the second
Cuban health worker to die of malaria in West Africa. The first, Jorge Juan
Guerra Rodriguez, died last Oct. 26 in Guinea. Dr. Felix Baez fell ill with
Ebola in Sierra Leone in November, but recovered.
In response to a U.N. call, Cuba said it would send
461 health workers to Africa to fight Ebola.
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