In recent years malaria has become the most common imported infection in the United Kingdom. This paper describes the 31 cases diagnosed in the North-East of Scotland between 1974 and 1978. Presentation of this disease in North-East Scotland, exceptional before 1974, has become more frequent recently-and this is largely due to the North Sea ‘oil boom’.
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