TY - JOUR T1 - Return of vivax malaria in Cyprus JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood JO - Arch Dis Child DO - 10.1136/archdischild-2018-316459 SP - archdischild-2018-316459 AU - Holly Emms AU - Richard Lee AU - Alison Thomas AU - Katja Doerholt AU - Kirsty Le Doare Y1 - 2018/12/03 UR - http://adc.bmj.com/content/early/2018/12/03/archdischild-2018-316459.abstract N2 - Malaria elimination in Europe has been the focus of significant national and international effort, and in 2015 the WHO declared for the first time that there were no indigenous cases of malaria in the WHO European region.1 However, since that time there have been several localised outbreaks of malaria in countries throughout Europe. We report two cases of vivax malaria in individuals returning from Northern Cyprus, which was declared malaria free in 1967. One further case of vivax malaria, also in an individual returning from the Cyprian resort of Esentepe in August 2017, has been highlighted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.2Our patients were siblings aged 10 and … ER -