Multiple reports of locally-acquired malaria infections in the EU

Five events of local transmission of malaria have been reported recently in the EU. Three of these events were associated with either mosquito-borne transmission around an imported case (introduced malaria) or an imported infected mosquito (airport malaria), in Greece and northern Cyprus (P. vivax), and in France (P. falciparum), and two were most likely associated with nosocomial transmission of P. falciparum, in Italy and in Greece, either mosquito-borne or iatrogenic.

The following options should be considered for preventing and controlling mosquito-borne transmission of malaria

Further inquiry note

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