Third malaria death linked to 'airport malaria' cluster at Frankfurt Airport

Three people have died near Frankfurt Airport in what health officials are calling an 'airport malaria' cluster — a rare but documented phenomenon in which disease-carrying mosquitoes hitch rides on international flights from endemic regions, arriving in places where malaria has long been eradicated. The victims never traveled to malaria-prone countries; the disease came to them, carried by a single insect across thousands of miles in a matter of hours. This quiet tragedy at the edge of one of Europe's busiest aviation hubs asks an old question in a new form: how do we account for the invisibl