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January 28, 2020 Killed by malaria after a trip to Africa. Loredana Guida, 44 years old teacher and journalist, died in the intensive care unit of the "San Giovanni di Dio" hospital in Agrigento after contracting the disease in Nigeria.

The journalist, signed by the Giornale di Sicilia and Agrigentonotizie, who has also been a teacher in Canicatti for some years, had taken advantage of the Christmas holidays to reach friends in Lagos, the capital of the Nigerian state.

Last January 9 she had returned to Italy, where she had accused the first symptoms exchanged by emergency room doctors, as a banal flu.

After 9 hours of waiting the woman had returned home. 5 days later she felt sick. Hence the ambulance ride for the return to the San Giovann di Dio hospital unconscious.

His condition plummeted enough to end in a coma. her clinical picture was gradually getting worse. The woman ended up in a coma and then died.

The diagnosis was malignant tertiary malaria. The disease is transmitted by the bite of a mosquito