
Baggage and Airport Malaria
Specialty: | Emergency Medicine Critical Care |
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Description: | Anopheles mosquitoes carrying malaria may stowaway on an airplane. They can emerge within the plane, in an airport or from baggage to infect anyone nearby. Several cases have been documented around the world. |
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