Third death reported in rare malaria cluster near Frankfurt Airport
A third person has died in a rare malaria cluster linked to Frankfurt Airport, according to city authorities in Germany. The latest death was reported on Thursday and involved one of two residents in the Schwanheim district, close to the airport, who were diagnosed earlier this week. Officials said the case is part of an unusual outbreak that has been associated with air travel rather than travel to a malaria-endemic region.The city administration said the two newly infected people had contracted Plasmodium falciparum, the parasite that causes malaria tropica, even though neither had travelled to an endemic area and neither... [Continue Reading]
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