{"id":522506,"date":"2026-08-26T10:13:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T14:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/?p=522506"},"modified":"2026-08-26T10:14:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T14:14:00","slug":"airport-employee-dies-after-malaria-cases-linked-to-mosquitoes-arriving-on-a-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/international\/airport-employee-dies-after-malaria-cases-linked-to-mosquitoes-arriving-on-a-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Airport employee dies after malaria cases linked to mosquitoes arriving on a flight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Six employees at <strong>Frankfurt Airport in Germany contracted malaria<\/strong>, and one of them died, after mosquitoes believed to have arrived on a flight from a malaria-affected region were found to be linked to the cases, according to local media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <strong>five other affected employees are receiving treatment<\/strong>. Germany\u2019s Robert Koch Institute linked the cases reported in August to the airport premises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Health authorities said <strong>human-to-human transmission does not play a role<\/strong> in these airport-related malaria cases, and urged airport workers who develop symptoms to seek medical attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Malaria is transmitted by infected <strong>Anopheles mosquitoes<\/strong>. The World Health Organization warns that the disease can be fatal if it is not treated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The cases have also raised questions about the effectiveness of <strong>aircraft disinfection procedures<\/strong>, particularly for flights arriving from areas where malaria is present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six employees at Frankfurt Airport in Germany contracted malaria, and one of them died, after mosquitoes believed to have arrived on a flight from a malaria-affected region were found to be linked to the cases, according to local media. The five other affected employees are receiving treatment. Germany\u2019s Robert Koch Institute linked the cases reported [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":522507,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[37165,95],"tags":[611],"class_list":["post-522506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","category-international","tag-deultimominuto"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-2bVw","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/22int-iceland-mosquito-1-fzph-videoSixteenByNine3000.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Edith B\u00e1ez","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-08-11-at-11.09.56-AM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Health","International"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/22int-iceland-mosquito-1-fzph-videoSixteenByNine3000.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}