Kenya Medical Research Institute Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/kenya-medical-research-institute/ The low down on African affairs Fri, 24 Apr 2020 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Kenya Medical Research Institute Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/kenya-medical-research-institute/ 32 32 Important to understand both malaria and COVID 19 https://jjcornish.com/2020/04/important-to-understand-both-malaria-and-covid-19/ Fri, 24 Apr 2020 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2020/04/important-to-understand-both-malaria-and-covid-19/ On World Malaria Day, scientists are saying it’s essential that people understand the dangers of both the mosquito-borne disease and COVID 19. They warn of a significant threat of people contracting both, particularly in Africa, which has 94% of malaria deaths. Professor Colin Sutherland of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine says with […]

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]]> On World Malaria Day, scientists are saying it’s essential that people understand the dangers of both the mosquito-borne disease and COVID 19.

They warn of a significant threat of people contracting both, particularly in Africa, which has 94% of malaria deaths.

Professor Colin Sutherland of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine says with heightened awareness of COVID 19, the high fever associated with malaria could be confused with coronavirus.

This could result in malaria patients being incorrectly sent to COVID 19 treatment centers where their true illness could be missed in the vital three-day window for effective malaria treatment.

Dr Francis Kimani of the Kenya Medical Research Institute says advances made against malaria could be reversed if scarce resources were re-directed to treating the COVID 19 pandemic.

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