British travellers are more at risk of contracting malaria
From today's Telegraph (UK) we find that British travellers are more at risk of contracting the most deadly form of malaria now than they were 20 years ago, leading medical authorities reported this week.
According to figures from the Health Protection Agency (HPA), about 1,300 British travellers last year contracted Plasmodium falciparum, a potentially fatal strain of malaria. This is more than twice the number of cases reported in 1985.
Travellers need to be more careful about proectection against infectious diseases.