4 contaminated workers being handled in hospital; mosquito traps deployed at Frankfurt hub.
Revealed On 26 Aug 2026
Two Frankfurt airport staff have died after contracting malaria from a mosquito believed to have hitched a journey on an incoming flight, based on town’s well being authority.
Airport officers had initially reported one demise amongst six contaminated workers. The toll rose to 2 on Wednesday.
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Germany’s Robert Koch Institute (RKI) factors to an imported Anopheles mosquito, doubtless carried in on an plane, because the almost definitely supply of the an infection.
Malaria circumstances are uncommon in Germany. The RKI says the nation’s final airport-linked malaria outbreak was in 2023.
The institute added that the rarity can, nonetheless, work in opposition to sufferers, since docs might not instantly suspect the illness, which delays prognosis and raises dangers of extreme sickness.
The remaining 4 contaminated workers are being handled in hospital, an airport spokesman mentioned, including that mosquito traps have now been put in on web site.
The mosquitoes caught might be transferred to the Institute of Tropical Medication in Antwerp, Belgium for genetic checks to search out out extra about their origin.
Malaria is a severe, mosquito-borne infectious illness attributable to microscopic parasites. It’s unfold by means of Anopheles mosquitoes and might trigger signs equivalent to nausea, headache and intense waves of fever and chills. The illness causes a whole lot of 1000’s of deaths a 12 months, principally in sub-Saharan Africa.
There are remedies if contaminated sufferers detect the illness early sufficient, they usually normally make an entire restoration.
