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Review
. 2009 Jul-Aug;38(7-8):1106-9.
doi: 10.1016/j.lpm.2008.11.014. Epub 2009 Mar 17.

[Airport malaria]

[Article in French]
Benjamin Queyriaux  1 , Bruno Pradines, Lilia Hasseine, Sébastien Coste, Patrick Rodriguez, Thierry Coffinet, Rachel Haus-Cheymol, Christophe Rogier
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[Airport malaria]

[Article in French]
Benjamin Queyriaux et al. Presse Med. 2009 Jul-Aug.

Abstract

Airport malaria is a particular form of autochthonous malaria: it happens when the Plasmodium infected Anopheles genus mosquito travels from an endemic area to a malaria free airport. Since 1969, 30 cases of airport malaria have been reported in France, 2 during summer 2008. The severity of airport malaria is explained by the frequency of Plasmodium falciparum infecting non immune individuals and an often important diagnosis delay. It is a compulsory notification disease in France. The International Health Regulations (IHR) require states to check that airplanes coming from malaria or arboviral endemic area are systematically disinsected. Vector control measures have to be implemented within a distance of at least 400 meters around the perimeter of airports in malaria or arboviral endemic areas. In France, this measure applies to all airports of French overseas territories, except for the island of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon.

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