Re:Two German airport workers die of malaria after 'mosquito...
by briandw on Thursday August 27, 2026 @02:32PM
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They didn’t mention the strain. My understanding is that there are 5 strains. P. malariae is common and not particularly deadly while. When i visited Africa, all of the locals had had malaria multiple times. P. falciparum is extremely nasty and can kill quickly.
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Re:Two German airport workers die of malaria after 'mosquito...
by mk89 on Thursday August 27, 2026 @03:28PM
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It's the Malaria tropica according to [0]:
> Im Zusammenhang mit den bereits bekannten sechs Fällen von Malaria tropica bei Personen, die am Flughafen Frankfurt am Main tätig sind, sind zwei Erkrankte verstorben
And a quick search says that this is the most dangerous one. Of course it had to be...
[0]:https://frankfurt.de/de-de/aktuelle-meldung/meldungen/gesund...
Re:Two German airport workers die of malaria after 'mosquito...
by klipt on Thursday August 27, 2026 @04:31PM
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Malaria tropica (the disease) maps 1:1 to Plasmodium falciparum (the parasite that causes this disease)
Re:Two German airport workers die of malaria after 'mosquito...
by crossroadsguy on Thursday August 27, 2026 @03:01PM
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I had dengue once. Fever was something else! Since then I've been scared shitless that there are 3 other major variants remaining and if the next time is one of those 3 I am most probably cooked. There are no vaccines here yet either.
Re:Two German airport workers die of malaria after 'mosquito...
by greenavocado on Thursday August 27, 2026 @03:23PM
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Is that the one where the degree of immunity is negative post infection
Re:Two German airport workers die of malaria after 'mosquito...
by wbl on Thursday August 27, 2026 @03:31PM
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Yup. But OP is now eligible for a vaccine!
Re:Two German airport workers die of malaria after 'mosquito...
by crossroadsguy on Friday August 28, 2026 @01:03AM
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I just looked up and my country approved its first dengue vaccine last month. Maybe I should enquire about it :D
Re:Two German airport workers die of malaria after 'mosquito...
by crossroadsguy on Friday August 28, 2026 @01:01AM
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If you mean the specific strain then I do not know which one it was (I ). But yeah if I get bitten by another dengue strain then the immunity works against me. So (afaik; roughly speaking) I have ≈100% immunity against my strain and sort of negative immunity against the rest three.
I just looked up my test report from years ago and it just says NS1 rapid antigen test and that one doesn't find which of DENV-1(-2, -3, -4) it was.
Re:Two German airport workers die of malaria after 'mosquito...
by rikschennink on Thursday August 27, 2026 @04:22PM
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Got it as well a couple years ago, it was no joke. :/
Luckily we could get vaccinated a year later. If you’ve had it and catch another variant mortality rate jumps to 10%. But usually those variants don’t overlap, it’s region based.
Re:Two German airport workers die of malaria after 'mosquito...
by landgenoot on Thursday August 27, 2026 @05:39PM
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I think Qdenga was approved in India very recently.