New Delhi, Sept. 26 -- He had not traveled anywhere in months. A resident of the Schwanheim district, near Frankfurt Airport, with no professional connection to aviation and no recent trip to the tropics. In mid-September, he died of malaria.

on a plane.

Health authorities in Frankfurt confirmed on September 15 that two Schwanheim residents had tested positive for Plasmodium falciparum, the most lethal strain of the malaria parasite. One of them died two days later, on September 17, making that death the third fatality in an outbreak that had already killed two airport workers during the summer. Eight people in total - six airside personnel at Frankfurt Airport infected between July 4 and July 6, and two residential cases with no profes...