Open AccessAirport malaria : a rare disease still poorly understood
Author(s) -
Jean Mouchet
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
euro surveillance/eurosurveillance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.766
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1560-7917
pISSN - 1025-496X
DOI - 10.2807/esm.05.07.00016-en
Subject(s) - malaria , disease , medicine , intensive care medicine , environmental health , immunology , pathology
The article by Daniel Lusina and colleagues in this issue of Eurosurveillance is a timely reminder of the dangers of airport malaria. Since 1977, when the disease was first documented, 75 cases of airport malaria have been observed in western Europe, 28 o