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Doesn't the Netherlands have some sort of institute of tropical medicine which deals with exactly those cases?

If the airport workers had travelled to another country, their doctors would have looked for tropical/travel diseases.

Usually, it is through shipping containers where unwanted insects cross borders. That's how murder hornets and flying cockroaches got into the US.

I'm asking about the Dutchman story the parent wrote. I can hardly believe it tbh. Even if the Netherlands don't have specialized personel, Hamburg is just a 5 hour drive away and Antwerp even closer.

Maybe you're thinking about the The Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp/Belgium?

I was thinking about the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute and assumed most western countries have something like that. The German Wikipedia article about "Tropeninstitut" mentions the KIT for the Netherlands [0] altough that article sounds way less about medicine than the Swiss one or the German Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine or the Belgian one you mentioned.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Tropical_Institute

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