{"id":774115,"date":"2026-09-17T23:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T23:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/774115\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T23:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T23:52:11","slug":"third-person-dies-from-malaria-in-cluster-near-germanys-frankfurt-airport-health-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/774115\/","title":{"rendered":"Third person dies from malaria in cluster near Germany\u2019s Frankfurt Airport | Health News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Frankfurt grapples with a rare malaria outbreak tied to air travel, marking three deaths in recent months.<\/p>\n

By Anadolu, DPA and Reuters<\/p>\n

Published On 17 Sep 202617 Sep 2026<\/p>\n

A third person has died from malaria after a recent cluster of cases linked to Frankfurt Airport, in what German officials have described as an extremely rare air-traffic-related \u2060outbreak of the tropical disease.<\/p>\n

In a statement on Thursday, city administration said the person died at Frankfurt hospital and was one of two infected residents living in the Schwanheim district, in the immediate vicinity of the airport.<\/p>\n

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The two new malaria cases in the neighbourhood had been reported on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cBoth individuals \u200chad become infected with the malaria-causing parasite Plasmodium falciparum, even though they had not travelled to a malaria-endemic region and had not worked at the airport,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n

According to the city\u2019s public health department, the two newly infected people contracted the disease from a mosquito flown into Germany on an aircraft or in luggage.<\/p>\n

Six Frankfurt airport workers had contracted malaria tropica<\/a>, the most dangerous form of the disease, in July, authorities said. Two later died.<\/p>\n

Malaria is a potentially life-threatening mosquito-borne disease that is extremely rare in Germany.<\/p>\n

The malaria parasite is spread between \u2060humans by some types of mosquitoes, but not through direct human-to-human contact.<\/p>\n

Frankfurt Airport operator Fraport said it set up traps to catch \u2060mosquitoes and sent the insects to a laboratory in Antwerp in Belgium in July and August, but \u200cresults were not available yet.<\/p>\n

Health authorities have warned doctors near the airport to consider malaria in patients who come in with a fever.<\/p>\n

Airport workers and residents have been urged to seek medical advice in case they display symptoms including\u00a0fever, chills, headaches, confusion, seizures and breathing difficulties.<\/p>\n

An airport spokesperson said local public health authorities had the power \u200cin \u200cprinciple to order airlines to disinfect aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Frankfurt grapples with a rare malaria outbreak tied to air travel, marking three deaths in recent months. By…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[591,59,145,102,50,557,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-774115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-europe","tag-gb","tag-germany","tag-health","tag-news","tag-transport","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}