Maryland became the most recent state to report a case of locally acquired malaria, but experts said there is no reason to be concerned about the mosquito-borne disease.
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"I don't think the average person needs to be worried," Dr. Mary Jo Trepka, chair of the department of epidemiology at Florida International University, told ABC News. "I mean, you're talking about a handful of cases in communities where there's millions and millions of people, right, so your average person is not at an elevated risk."
There are around 2,000 malaria cases a year, but they're most often diagnosed in people who caught the disease while abroad, according to the CDC.consisting of spraying insecticides on the interior surfaces of rural homes or entire premises in counties where malaria was prevalent -- as well as removing mosquito breeding sites and drainage -- led to a total elimination of transmission by 1950.
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