Cluster of imported malaria from Gambia in Finland – travellers do not listen to given advice

K Valve; E Ruotsalainen; T Kärki; E Pekkanen; H Siikamäki

doi:10.2807/ese.13.51.19068-en

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Cluster of imported malaria from Gambia in Finland – travellers do not listen to given advice

K Valve¹, E Ruotsalainen¹, T Kärki¹, E Pekkanen¹, H Siikamäki²
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Affiliations: ¹ National Public Health Institute, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control, Helsinki, Finland ² Helsinki University Central Hospital, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Helsinki, Finland

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Citation style for this article: Valve K, Ruotsalainen E, Kärki T, Pekkanen E, Siikamäki H. Cluster of imported malaria from Gambia in Finland – travellers do not listen to given advice. Euro Surveill. 2008;13(51):pii=19068. https://doi.org/10.2807/ese.13.51.19068-en Received: 05 Dec 2008

Abstract

Twelve Finnish tourists contracted falciparum malaria from Gambia in the period between 3 and 27 November 2008. The travellers came from different parts of Finland and all except one had booked the trip from the same travel agency. Ten of them had received information about the risk of malaria in Gambia and protection from mosquito bites but none of them had used adequate malaria chemoprophylaxis.