Travellers have been issued a warning as cases of a killer disease from mosquitoes transported on planes are rising in Europe. Instances of “suitcase and airport malaria”, which is also known as Odyssean malaria, have been found in people returning from holiday. Of 6,131 malaria cases that were reported in the EU/EEA in 2022, 99 percent were travel-related. Odyssean malaria is the name given to cases that come from the bite of an infected mosquito transported by aircraft, luggage, or parcel