In a country where malaria has no natural foothold, three people have died near Frankfurt Airport — not because they traveled to the tropics, but because the tropics, in a sense, traveled to them. A mosquito carrying Plasmodium falciparum, the parasite responsible for malaria's most lethal form, is believed to have arrived hidden aboard an aircraft, biting airport workers and nearby residents who had no reason to suspect exposure to a disease their immune systems had never learned to resist. It is a quiet reminder that the same global infrastructure that connects humanity across continents can
Three dead in rare 'airport malaria' outbreak near Frankfurt hub
Three people died from malaria and at least four others contracted the disease in the outbreak near Frankfurt Airport.