A MYSTERY case of malaria near London’s Heathrow Airport is being investigated by officials, who suspect the patient may have been bitten by a “stowaway” mosquito. The person, who works near Heathrow and has been successfully treated, has not recently been to any country with malaria.
Officials from the government’s Public Health Laboratory Service are trying to establish how it happened. “It’s either from a mosquito or from blood [from a hospital],” says David Warhurst of the PHLS’s malaria lab at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. “If we get any odd cases we can’t explain, we do an investigation to see if it’s…
