Connection between Ebola survival and co-infection with malaria parasites explored in new study
Wednesday, August 17, 2016 - 09:01
in Biology & Nature
People infected with Ebola virus were 20 percent more likely to survive if they were co-infected with malaria-causing Plasmodium parasites, according to data collected at an Ebola diagnostic laboratory in Liberia in 2014-15. Moreover, greater numbers of Plasmodium parasites correlated with increased rates of Ebola survival, according to the new study.