Fraport
German airport operator running Frankfurt Airport, one of Europe's largest hubs.
Fraport, the company that operates Frankfurt Airport, told staff to watch for fever after ECDC reported on 18 September 2026 that eight people had caught falciparum malaria at or near the airport, and three had died.
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Fraport, a German company, runs Frankfurt Airport, a hub for passengers and freight whose routes include direct services to West and Central Africa. In 2026 Fraport's own workforce bore most of Europe's largest recorded airport Malaria cluster: six of the eight people infected with Plasmodium falciparum worked at the airport, and their illnesses began from early July. No European airport cluster recorded between 1969 and 2022 had passed six cases, by the count of a 2024 review.
German law leaves the insecticide spraying of arriving cabins optional, and Fraport's response so FAR has been a fever warning to its employees. City traps set around the airport had caught no Anopheles by 29 September, and ECDC thinks infected mosquitoes most likely arrived repeatedly aboard aircraft. Genotyping of the parasites, expected at the end of October, should tell whether the cases share one source.
Fraport is also an enterprise customer of Conduct, a London software start-up that raised $60m in June 2026.
