Malaria's Unlikely Stopover at Frankfurt Airport

An outbreak of malaria at Frankfurt Airport this summer raised alarm, DW reports, with experts believing the parasites probably arrived in a passenger's luggage. With the onset of fall, DW adds, the risk of contracting the disease is low. Two things are worth keeping separate here: the likely route the parasites took, which is a hypothesis attributed to experts, and the danger to anyone nearby, which is described as low and falling with the season.