Malaria

Six employees at Frankfurt Airport were infected with malaria, resulting in two deaths, after mosquitoes reportedly arrived on a plane. German health officials confirmed the cluster, with four other employees recovering.

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First reported: 2026-08-26

Six employees at Frankfurt Airport were infected this summer, according to German health officials and the airport's operator. Four recovered.

Two employees at Frankfurt Airport died from a rare malaria outbreak this summer, most likely after a mosquito traveled to Germany on an airplane, the airport's operator said this week.

Six employees have contracted the disease since early July, Andreas Schopf, a spokesman for the airport's operator, Fraport, said in an email on Thursday. Four have since

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India has made a sharp dent in its malaria burden over the past decade, with cases and deaths falling nearly 80% between 2015 and 2025. The number of high-burden districts has also plunged from 155 to just 33, while 160 districts reported no indigenous cases between 2022 and 2025. The government is now intensifying surveillance and local action to push towards malaria elimination by 2030.

India recorded a nearly 80% decline in malaria cases and deaths between 2015 and 2025, while the number of h

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The infected mosquitoes are believed to have arrived on an aircraft before biting workers at the airport with six employees at Germany's busiest airport contracting the disease, and two tragically dying

Two airport workers have died after a rare malaria outbreak believed to have been caused by infected mosquitoes arriving on a plane.

Six male employees at Frankfurt Airport are said to have contracted the potentially deadly disease, with the cases detected across different roles and areas of Ger

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The federal government has announced that Nigeria reduced malaria prevalence from 42 per cent in 2010 to 15 per cent in 2025, describing the achievement as a major milestone in the country's fight against the disease. Minister of State for Health and Social Welfare, Dr Iziaq Adekunle Salako, disclosed this in Abuja during the national dissemination of the findings of the Perennial Malaria Chemoprevention (PMC) Implementation Research. Salako said the 2025 Nigeria Malaria Indicator Survey reflected significant progress over the past 15 years, attributing the decline to sustained investments by the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, development partners and other stakeholders. According to him, interventions such as vector control, improved diagnosis and treatment, enhanced disea...
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KSrelief, in partnership with UNHCR, repatriate 155 Somali refugees from Yemen RIYADH: Saudi Arabia's aid agency has launched a nationwide campaign to distribute one million insecticide-treated mosquito nets across Yemen while facilitating the voluntary return of 155 Somali refugees to their homeland, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported. The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) said the mosquito net campaign, launched in Aden in cooperation with the World Health Organization (WHO) and Yemen's National Malaria Control Program, aims to protect two million vulnerable people from malaria. The campaign will prioritize pregnant women, children and internally displaced people living in camps across all Yemeni governorates. Yemen's Minister of Public Health and Population, D...
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Researchers say warming temperatures are altering malaria transmission patterns across Africa, creating new challenges for health systems and disease control.

For decades, global efforts towards the eradication of malaria, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, have focused essentially on West and Central Africa where the disease is most endemic.

The WHO African Region accounts for about 95% of global malaria cases and deaths. More than half of all malaria deaths in the region occur in Nigeria (31.9

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Scientists say climate change is changing where malaria spreads across Africa, with South Africa's north-eastern provinces projected to experience some of the continent's biggest increases in climate-driven risk Climate change is reshaping Africa's malaria map, increasing the risk of the disease in South Africa's north-eastern provinces and the East African highlands even as warming temperatures make some of the continent's current malaria hotspots less suitable for transmission, according to a landmark study published in Nature. The international study, co-authored by researchers from the University of Cape Town (UCT), is the most comprehensive assessment to date of how human-caused climate change has influenced childhood malaria across sub-Saharan Africa, where most global malaria cases ...
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Climate change has increased childhood malaria and could continue to do so in southern and East Africa where communities are less experienced at tackling the disease, while reducing the risk in today's hotspots as temperatures become too high for mosquitoes, according to a new study published in Nature.

The study -- The past and future impact of climate change on childhood malaria in Africa -- quantifies climate change's historical and future impact in sub-Saharan Africa's children, where most c

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World Mosquito Day is observed on August 20 to mark Ronald Ross's 1897 malaria discovery in Secunderabad, India. Here's why the date matters.

There are few things as universally annoying as a mosquito buzzing beside your ear at night. But the tiny insect has a far more serious place in public health than being the reason you reach for a mosquito repellent.

Every year, August 20 is observed as World Mosquito Day to commemorate a discovery made in India in 1897 by British doctor and scientist Sir

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