Dangerous tropical disease: Two deaths from malaria at Frankfurt Airport
Several employees at Frankfurt Airport have contracted malaria. Two of them have died as a result of the infection. Experts are now investigating exactly how the disease was transmitted.
Two employees at Frankfurt Airport have died from malaria, one in early July and the other in August. A total of six employees were infected with Malaria tropica, the most dangerous form of the disease, after being exposed to mosquitoes from a malaria-endemic area that likely arrived in Germany by plane. Four of the infected employees have recovered after treatment, and authorities say the risk to the Frankfurt population is negligible.
The Robert Koch-Institut confirmed an outbreak of four malaria cases among airport employees in mid-July, and Fraport, the airport operator, has set up mosquito traps and captured mosquitoes for laboratory testing.
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