Hessenschau
News service of Hessischer Rundfunk, the public broadcaster for the German state of Hesse.
hessenschau reported on 29 September 2026 that Frankfurt's health department mosquito traps set by Frankfurt's health department around the airport and in Schwanheim had caught no Anopheles, after eight locally caught Malaria cases and three deaths.
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Reported the Schwanheim malaria cases
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hessenschau has been the main local source on the 2026 Malaria cluster around Frankfurt Airport. Eight people with no travel to a Malaria country caught Plasmodium falciparum, the deadliest malaria parasite, and three died. On 29 September it reported that the city health department's traps had yet to catch a single Anopheles, the mosquito that carries Malaria, around the airport or in Schwanheim, and that the airport operator Fraport had told staff to watch for fever.
hessenschau is the regional news programme and website of Hessischer Rundfunk (hr), the public broadcaster for the German state of Hesse. It is based in Frankfurt am Main. The television programme first aired on 2 January 1961, and hessenschau.de replaced hr-online.de in July 2015.
As the public broadcaster's regional newsroom, it reports on Hesse's health authorities from close range, which made it the outlet carrying the health department's trapping results.