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They didn’t mention the strain. My understanding is that there are 5 strains. P. malariae is common and not particularly deadly while. When i visited Africa, all of the locals had had malaria multiple times. P. falciparum is extremely nasty and can kill quickly.

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It's the Malaria tropica according to [0]:

> Im Zusammenhang mit den bereits bekannten sechs Fällen von Malaria tropica bei Personen, die am Flughafen Frankfurt am Main tätig sind, sind zwei Erkrankte verstorben

And a quick search says that this is the most dangerous one. Of course it had to be...

[0]:https://frankfurt.de/de-de/aktuelle-meldung/meldungen/gesund...

Malaria tropica (the disease) maps 1:1 to Plasmodium falciparum (the parasite that causes this disease)

I had dengue once. Fever was something else! Since then I've been scared shitless that there are 3 other major variants remaining and if the next time is one of those 3 I am most probably cooked. There are no vaccines here yet either.

Is that the one where the degree of immunity is negative post infection

Yup. But OP is now eligible for a vaccine!

I just looked up and my country approved its first dengue vaccine last month. Maybe I should enquire about it :D

If you mean the specific strain then I do not know which one it was (I ). But yeah if I get bitten by another dengue strain then the immunity works against me. So (afaik; roughly speaking) I have ≈100% immunity against my strain and sort of negative immunity against the rest three.

I just looked up my test report from years ago and it just says NS1 rapid antigen test and that one doesn't find which of DENV-1(-2, -3, -4) it was.

Got it as well a couple years ago, it was no joke. :/

Luckily we could get vaccinated a year later. If you’ve had it and catch another variant mortality rate jumps to 10%. But usually those variants don’t overlap, it’s region based.

I think Qdenga was approved in India very recently.

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