A Cambodian-born French 61-year-old man with several cardiovascular risk factors (current smoker, dyslipidaemia, diabetes mellitus without renal impairment, excessive alcohol use or iron overload) was admitted 6 months after his last travel in Cambodia during the wet season. The patient complained of subacute abdominal pains, which became recently intense, without fever or diarrhoea. Abdominal CT scan revealed infrarenal abdominal mycotic aortic aneurysm with signs of cracking (figure 1). Laparotomy, aneurysmectomy, insertion of a …
