The mosquito-borne disease was eliminated here long ago. Now “revenge travel,” global migration, poor public funding—and maybe climate change—could help it come back.
At least four people in Florida and one in Texas have been diagnosed with malaria that they must have caught near where they live—because, according to health officials, none of them traveled outside the US or their own states. The very unusual discovery has left infectious disease specialists wondering: Who else might be ill, and will local doctors recognize what’s wrong?
Ross Boyce, MD, MSc, a researcher with the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases and an assistant professor of medicine, was interviewed about these new cases of malaria.
Read the news story published by Wired.