Rare malaria death of girl in northern Italy puzzles doctors

A four-year-old Italian girl has died of cerebral malaria in northern Italy, a region free of the disease, in what doctors see as a very mysterious case.dropdown after being rushed to hospital with a high fever on Saturday. dropdown the deadliest form of the blood disease. But after a scorching August, dropdown A flight could have brought it in. dropdown an Adriatic resort near Venice. Trento, where the girl's malaria was diagnosed on Saturday, lies within the Trentino region in the foothills of the Alps. "It's the first time in my 30-year career that dropdown said Dr Claudio Paternoster, an infectious diseases specialist at Trento's Santa Chiara Hospital. Since the 1950s,dropdown There is speculation that dropdown from one of two children treated for it at the Trento hospital after 15 August. dropdown recovered. Sofia had had treatment there for child diabetes and there was a break before dropdown A Trentino health official, Paolo Bordon, said dropdown as the other two children. dropdown transfusion, he added, stressing that the treatments for dropdown