On August 28, 1977, Jules S., 76, was admitted to the Aulnay-sous-Bois Hospital Center with a fever with digestive disturbances of three days’ duration. Malnourished, dehydrated, disoriented, he died the next day. But a mystery appears during the blood test. the man has never traveled abroad, hasn’t left the Paris area for several years, and yet…suffers from malaria. The infection is significant (23% of red blood cells are parasitized), recent (the parasite is in its early stages of development), and the result of a tropical parasite that local mosquitoes cannot transmit (Plasmodium falciparum, the most dangerous of the microorganisms that cause malaria). How could this person have been infected?
Caregivers then reflect on a patient they saw a year ago. On August 27, 1976, 20-year-old student Jean-Luc T. arrived at the hospital with the same symptoms. He survived, but a blood test also showed an infection…
Source: Le Figaro
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