Four people in Florida and one person in Texas recently caught malaria within the U.S. Similar cases haven't been reported since 2003.
The mosquito-borne illness malaria has sickened five U.S. residents with no recent travel history, meaning they caught the disease locally, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Monday .
Each year, about 2,000 people test positive for malaria in the U.S., but the vast majority have recently traveled internationally to regions where the disease is endemic, meaning it regularly spreads there, the CDC notes. However, because mosquito species that can carry malaria live in the U.S., there's a potential risk for local mosquitoes to pick up malaria parasites from an infected person and thus reintroduce the disease in the area. Since malaria was eliminated in the U.S.
Typically, within a week to a month of being bitten by a mosquito carrying the malaria-causing parasite, people experience an initial"attack" that lasts hours and has several stages of symptoms, including cold and shivering; then fever, headaches and vomiting; and finally, sweating and fatigue. Additional signs of malaria that doctors look for include an enlarged spleen, mild jaundice , enlargement of the liver and increased breathing rate.
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