HAVANA – The Cuban Health Ministry has confirmed that a Cuban male nurse, who was sent to Sierra [pro_ad_display_adzone id=”8″]Leone as part of a team to help fight Ebola, has died of malaria, on Sunday.
A report from the ministry, said on Monday in Havana, that Reinaldo Antigua, 43, died on Sunday of [pro_ad_display_adzone id=”10″]cerebral complications caused by malaria in a hospital in Freetown, and one of the Ebola hotspots.
It said the victim had earlier presented the first symptoms of Ebola and was later confirmed to have [pro_ad_display_adzone id=”10″]malaria.
This is the second Cuban health staff helping the fight against the Ebola epidemic to die of Malaria in [pro_ad_display_adzone id=”10″]West Africa.
The first, an economist, Jorge Guerra-Rodriguez, died of the disease last October.
Cuba has sent more than 200 male doctors and nurses to the countries seriously affected by the Ebola virus. (Xinhua/NAN)