• A person died from complications caused by malaria at the Clinic for Infectious Diseases in Ljubljana.
  • This is the first recorded death from malaria in Slovenia in the last 30 years.
  • Patients were infected in Rwanda, Zanzibar, and Tanzania; the number of cases is rising due to increased tourism to Zanzibar.
  • Infectologists warn that the disease is often underestimated, although it can have a rapid and fatal course.