UK Travellers To Africa And Asia Continue To Ignore Health Messages About Preventing Malaria

A study by the Health Protection Agency’s Malaria Reference Laboratory (HPA) and published in today’s BMJ.com shows that despite highly effective measures available to prevent malaria, the burden of disease among UK travellers has steadily increased over the last 20 years. There were 39,300 cases of malaria in the UK between 1987 and 2006. Of these 20,488 were in UK travellers (visitors from the UK to malarious countries) and the remainder were among visitors to the UK.

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Filed under: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses on July 4th, 2008