A Maryland resident tested positive for malaria after contracting the disease locally.
“There’s no reason for panic, but this is something that we all need to watch out for in the next couple of years,” says Prakash Srinivasan, an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins’ Malaria Research Institute.
There haven’t been reported cases of locally transmitted malaria in the US in about 20 years, but this year a few have popped up around the country, including in Maryland. Why is this happening now? What are the symptoms that people should be looking out for if they are concerned they contracted malaria?
There are a number of Anopheles mosquitoes that are quite prevalent in Maryland and even more so down south, like in Florida and Texas. But there are also many Anopheles mosquitoes that are specific to each geographic location, [there] are predominant Anopheles mosquitoes that are in Africa, there are predominant Anopheles mosquitoes that are in India.
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