Government last Friday (December 5) launched the first round of a massive anti-malarial drug campaign, targeting 2.4 million people in Ebola hot zones.
The symptoms of malaria are so similar to Ebola in its early stages - fever, headache, aching joints - they can easily be misdiagnosed as Ebola, causing confusion among patients and healthcare workers and unnecessary referrals to Ebola treatment units.
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