| Reason for travel | Total no. of malaria diagnoses (no. of travellers) | Type of malaria; no. of diagnoses | Top 3 countries of exposure | Received prophylaxis | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plasmodium falciparum | Severe malaria | Plasmodium vivax | Plasmodium ovale | Species unknown | Plasmodium malariae | ||||
| All (n = 18 870) | 456 (437) | 282 | 26 | 85 | 21 | 39 | 3 | See Table 2 | 68* |
| Tourism (n = 8 136) | 54 (52) | 29 | 4 | 16 | 2 | 3 | 0 | Ghana, Uganda, Ivory Coast | 8 |
| Immigration (n = 4 967) | 62 (60) | 35 | 2 | 15 | 4 | 5 | 1 | India, Nigeria, Liberia | NA |
| Visiting friends and relatives (n = 1 966) | 174 (169) | 117 | 5 | 38 | 7 | 7 | 0 | Nigeria, India, Cameroon | 28 |
| Missionary, volunteer, research or aid work (n = 1 656) | 73 (69) | 42 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 13 | 1 | Ghana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon | 19 |
| Business (n = 1 643) | 77 (71) | 51 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 1 | Burkina Faso, Ghana, Guinea | 7 |
| Other† (n = 498) | 16 (16) | 8 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | India, Benin, Burkina Faso, Tanzania | 2 |
Note: NA = not applicable.*Includes 5 travellers who either missed doses of doxycycline during travel or ran out of doxycycline before the end of travel.
†Includes 355 students, 122 military personnel and 21 people travelling for medical tourism.