title: Malaria in the United Kingdom.
abstract: Over the past decade the United Kingdom had the second highest number of cases of imported malaria among European countries. There has been a substantial rise in recorded cases of malaria during the past three years though some of it may be due to improved notification. Fatal cases of malaria in visitors to Africa have averaged 6.5% of reported infections due to Plasmodium falciparum. Attacks of vivax malaria may occur several months after travellers return from a malarious country.
mesh_terms: D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D006801:Humans; D008288:Malaria / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology / Q000401:mortality; D008887:Military Medicine; D010963:Plasmodium falciparum / Q000302:isolation & purification; D011634:Public Health; D065227:Transfusion Reaction; D014195:Travel; D006113:United Kingdom