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> It's sad but unsurprising that no one was able to treat these German workers in time. Literally every pharmacy over here sells treatment against malaria – ma
by codethief 21d ago
> It's sad but unsurprising that no one was able to treat these German workers in time.
Literally every pharmacy over here sells treatment against malaria – many have it in stock and even if they don't, they'll be able to get it for you within a few hours. Every major city (certainly every city with an airport where you could catch airport malaria) has a hospital with a department specifically for infectious and tropical diseases, where they'll happily take care of you. GPs ask you if you've been to the equator lately if you go see them with high fever. I'm not sure how a country where malaria is not common at all would be able to do any better?
Also, as I mentioned in another comment, airport staff are instructed to watch out for malaria symptoms precisely because airport malaria is a thing.
Something definitely went wrong here but from afar it surely doesn't look like a healthcare failure to me. Maybe the deceased stayed home, thinking they had caught a cold and would be able to sit it out?
- blks 21d agoSomehow it still lead to two deaths. Maybe GPs didn’t ask/didn’t know about airport malaria, or airport workers were some subcontractors and never gotten instructed.
- Scoundreller 21d agoor people that lived 5km from the airport and mostly stayed at home or nearby shops, but lived under a flightpath: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9027149/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9027149/ or 2km away: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4318208/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4318208/