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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there hasn’t been a case of locally acquired malaria since 2003
(ADN America) – ealth officials have issued a health alert after five cases of malaria were acquired in the United States, marking the first time that the mosquito-borne disease has been found in the country in 20 years.
Five new cases of malaria were reported in the U.S. over the last two months—one in Texas and four in Florida.
There are about 2,000 cases of malaria diagnosed each year in the nation. However, the cases are found in people who have traveled to countries where they are exposed to the mosquito carrying the disease. However, the new cases were found in people who have not traveled abroad, increasing fears that local mosquitoes could be spreading the disease.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there hasn’t been a case of locally acquired malaria since 2003 in Palm Beach, Florida. In Texas, the last locally acquired case of malaria occurred in 1994.
“It’s always worrisome that you have local transmission in an area,” Estelle Martin, an entomologist at the University of Florida who researches mosquito-borne diseases, told Vox.
Malaria spreads when a person carrying the parasite gets bit by a mosquito. The parasite then develops inside the mosquito, which then bites more people, thereby spreading the disease.
The symptoms of malaria include fever, chills, muscle aches, headaches, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea…
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