A health scare at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games - but no New Zealanders are involved.

An athlete at the Games has been hospitalised after contracting malaria.

Games organisers confirmed the 23-year-old, from an unnamed nation, had been admitted to Hospital in a serious condition.

Malaria, a mosquito-borne disease, infects approximately 216 million people a year worldwide.

Mainland Australia has been malaria-free for decades.