Two German airport workers die of malaria spread by mosquito on plane

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Two workers at Germany’s Frankfurt airport who caught malaria from a mosquito thought to have arrived on a plane have died, the city’s health authority said Wednesday.

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Airport officials had earlier said one employee had perished, with six workers infected.

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The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) said an imported Anopheles mosquito carried over by an aircraft was the likely cause.

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The other four infected employees were being treated in hospital, said an airport spokesman.

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According to the RKI, Germany’s last outbreak of airport-based malaria was in 2023. The rarity of the condition means diagnosis can be delayed, increasing the chances of severe symptoms.

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The other employees are being treated, the airport spokesman said, adding that mosquito traps have been installed at the airport.

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The Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium, said it would analyze the malaria parasites in the patients’ blood samples.

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Caused by parasites spread via Anopheles mosquitoes, malaria can cause symptoms including nausea, headache and intense waves of fever and chills.

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The disease causes hundreds of thousands of deaths a year, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Treatments exist, and patients caught early with the disease usually make a complete recovery.

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