Italy investigates girl’s mystery malaria death

Italy’s health ministry has ordered a probe into the death of a four-year-old girl from malaria after checks determined she had not travelled to any country at risk of the disease.

The child died on Monday at the Brescia public hospital after being transferred from Trento, northern Italy. Malaria mostly occurs in Africa, and occasionally in parts of Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. But Italy is not known to have the kind of mosquitoes that cause the disease.