Third person dies from malaria in cluster near Germany’s Frankfurt Airport

Frankfurt grapples with a rare Malaria outbreak tied to air travel, marking three deaths in recent months.A third person has died from Malaria after a recent cluster of cases linked to Frankfurt-airport" class="entity-link entity-location" data-entity-id="76568" data-entity-type="location">Frankfurt Airport, in what German officials have described as an extremely rare air-traffic-related ⁠outbreak of the tropical disease.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.Recommended Stories list of 1 itemlist 1 of 1German airport workers die from Malaria caught from plane-riding mosquitoend of listThe two new Malaria cases in the neighbourhood had been reported on Tuesday.“Both individuals ‌had 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,” the statement said.According to the city’s public health department, the two newly infected people contracted the disease from a mosquito flown into Germany on an aircraft or in luggage.Six Frankfurt-airport" class="entity-link entity-location" data-entity-id="76568" data-entity-type="location">Frankfurt Airport workers had contracted Malaria tropica, the most dangerous form of the disease, in July, authorities said. Two later died.Malaria is a potentially life-threatening mosquito-borne disease that is extremely rare in Germany.The Malaria parasite is spread between ⁠humans by some types of mosquitoes, but not through direct human-to-human contact.Frankfurt-airport" class="entity-link entity-location" data-entity-id="76568" data-entity-type="location">Frankfurt Airport operator Fraport said it set up traps to catch ⁠mosquitoes and sent the insects to a laboratory in Antwerp in Belgium in July and August, but ‌results were not available yet.Health authorities have warned doctors near the airport to consider Malaria in patients who come in with a fever.