Quote Originally Posted by Win2Win View Post
I heard on the news the other day that more people are coming back to the UK with malaria than ever before.
It was once endemic in Europe. The UK had 1761 imported cases of falciparum malaria in 2010, according to the Health Protection Agency. These were mostly from West Africa or South Asia ( not from the Philippines). In 2008 there were 1,370 reported cases, an increase of nearly 30%. The fatality rate is low, less than 1%.
However, stated as an increase from 1/48,000 to 1/37,000 out of an estimated 66 million visits abroad by UK residents it doesn't sound quite so dramatic!