Frankfurt Airport Employee Dies After Catching Malaria, Operator Says
- On Wednesday, airport operator Fraport confirmed that an employee died of malaria, with five colleagues currently receiving medical treatment for the infection.
- Authorities believe an infected Anopheles mosquito arrived by plane from a malaria-endemic region, likely in July, and transmitted the parasite at the airport.
- In total, six employees contracted "airport malaria," which the Robert Koch Institute describes as "very rare," and "human-to-human transmission plays no role in airport malaria."
- Fraport deployed mosquito traps at Frankfurt Airport for laboratory examination while advising employees to seek medical care if they develop malaria-like symptoms.
- A study covering 1969 to 2024 recorded only 145 airport-associated malaria cases across Europe, with nine in Germany, confirming the extreme rarity of such transmission.
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Six employees at Frankfurt airport contracted malaria and two of them died, allegedly following the arrival in Germany of an infected mosquito on a plane, the city’s public health service reported on Wednesday.
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