Member of Cuban Ebola mission dies of malaria

By WTOP Staff
October 27, 2014 | 3:50 PM

HAVANA (AP) — Cuba says a member of a medical team it sent to fight Ebola in West Africa has died of malaria.

According to state newspaper Granma, Jorge Juan Guerra Rodriguez, 60, died in Guinea on Oct. 26 from cerebral malaria, a complication of the parasitic infection that severely and sometimes fatally damages the brain.

The newspaper said two tests for Ebola turned up no sign of the disease.

Cuba sent 165 medical workers to Sierra Leone this month, followed by a second group of 83 who went to Guinea and Liberia last week. Guerra, who the newspaper said was trained as an economist, was a member of the advance team sent to Africa before the doctors were dispatched.

Trump’s sway is tested as Graham, Norman compete in South Carolina special GOP Senate primary

By The Associated Press
August 25, 2026 | 6:09 PM

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) 鈥� U.S. Sen. Darline Graham and U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman face South Carolina voters yet again Tuesday in a special Republican primary runoff to replace the late Lindsey Graham in the Senate, one month after his sudden death. The two-week runoff window since the two Republicans were the top vote-getters in an Aug. 11 primary has been a slugfest. Darline Graham 鈥� a political newcomer serving as interim replacement for her late brother 鈥� has struggled to define herself to voters who routinely backed Lindsey Graham in the heavily Republican state. Norman, who's served the better part of two decades in state and federal elected office, has stressed his experience to voters already aware of him from his years in Congress, plus an unsuccessful run for governor earlier this year. In the background of all of this is President Donald Trump, the longtime Lindsey Graham ally who endorsed Darline Graham's candidacy to replace her brother in the November general election before she even entered the race, stumped for her in the state days ahead of the runoff and held a runoff eve tele-rally with Graham. On Monday, MAGA Inc., the super PAC that supports Trump and aligned Republicans 鈥� but that has spent little thus far on Trump's picks in this year's midterms 鈥� infused nearly $830,000 into Graham's campaign for voter calls and text message blasts.

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