Two German airport workers die of malaria after 'mosquito arrives on plane'

I still remember they used disinsect the aircraft cabin, before you land in Indian airports with an aerosol spray https://www.transportation.gov/airconsumer/spray

https://www.epa.gov/mosquitocontrol/aircraft-disinsection

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Two months passed between the two deaths. This already happened once in Frankfurt in 2023, fortunately without fatalities.

https://www.n-tv.de/panorama/Zwei-Tote-durch-Flughafen-Malar...

Kinda wild. I spent most of my childhood a couple hours drive from a malaria region and never heard of anyone getting sick locally that hadn’t travelled that way. So multiple people in Germany seems surprising.

I got malaria twice in Africa. First time bad, second time REAL bad. I thought about death a little.

There was a good story of a Dutchman living in Mali who got malaria a few times (everyone does). It’s manageable with the meds.

Anyway he flies home, then develops symptoms. Goes to hospital and they freak. Full hazmat suits, isolation, doctors visiting from all over because they’d never seen it. Guy ends up dying because they wouldn’t give him the meds, because they didn’t know if it was safe, or what the right thing to do was.

Moral of the story is that for anyone spending time in malaria zones, take the meds home with you. If you get symptomatic, take the meds and maybe not go to hospital in the developed world. Meds I took was “coartem” and an injectable.

Could these mosquitoes lead to malaria becoming endemic in Germany?

I can not say anything about this incident, but what I have noticed in the last some years is that mosquitos have become much more annoying even in larger cities of mediate temperature. That has not been the case say 30 years up to 10 years ago or so, give or take. The range of mosquito attacks has definitely increased in every axis. Kind of almost miniature mosquitos too - really small, like barely 0.5 cm at max in length or perhaps 0.6 cm, but annoying to no ends and very hungry for blood. One can speculate but I think the increased temperature range induced this for the most part.

Hybrid warfare! It was multiple mosquitoes and the workers were in different areas. /s

I don't know why immigration for humans and mosquitoes is so lax in Germany. Germany is also the country of the Marburg Virus.

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