Malaria in foreign visitors to Britain.
Malaria cases reported in Britain are increasing. Foreign visitors ill with malaria while visiting Britain form an important category. This paper reviews notifications to the Malaria Reference Laboratory (M.R.L.) of cases of malaria in foreign visitors in 1985. There were 427 cases reported in this group which is nearly 20% of the total number reported. It was found that the foreign visitors had a higher proportion of Plasmodium falciparum and that a third of the cases were aged 20-29 years. Sixty per cent of the cases were born in Nigeria or India and 7.5% claim to have become ill on the day they arrived in Britain. The behaviour of the malaria and the individual with malaria were also studied.
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Medical Research Council Laboratories, Sierra Leone.
D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008288:Malaria / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000208:ethnology; D008297:Male; D010963:Plasmodium falciparum; D010966:Plasmodium vivax; D013997:Time Factors; D014195:Travel; D006113:United Kingdom