A 20-year-old woman in Kos, Greece, died after being bitten by a mosquito.
Marianna Tsiga was a student of the Kalymnos Merchant Marine Academy Captains School and had completed her first year of studies.
She was a merchant marine trainee. On August 13, 2023, the ship left the port of Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates for India.
On August 22, 2023, Marianna fell ill. She died of infectious encephalitis, believed to have been caused by mosquito bites during her trip to India.
Due to illness, the ship he was traveling on landed in Suez, Egypt, and on September 2, 2023, via Cairo, he was repatriated by the company along with a medical escort.
The 20-year-old was first transferred to a private clinic in Attica and then to the "Errikos Dunan" hospital, where she died on September 17, 2023.
The funeral mass will be held today at 17:00 in the Church of Our Lady in Zipari Kos. A preliminary investigation is being conducted into the tragic incident.