Malaria cases in Florida, Texas are first US spread in 20 years, CDC warns

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The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning doctors and public health officials about a handful of locally acquired cases of malaria. There hasn’t been a case of malaria caught locally in the US in 20 years.

Typically, if Americans get sick with malaria they’ve caught it while traveling overseas in areas where malaria is more common. Malaria is a disease spread when the female anopheline mosquito feeds on a person with malaria and then feeds on another.

The mosquito can be found in certain regions in the US, but malaria is still rare in the US. Worldwide there are 240 million cases each year, 95% in Africa.

That could change with the climate crisis. Scientists have been warning people that malaria could become more common in the US as temperatures warm.

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Of course CNN has to allude to "climate change". Ramp up the fear.

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In this case, four people in Florida and one person in Texas seem to have gotten exposed to the disease locally. The cases in the two states don’t seem to be related to each other, the CDC said.

The four cases in Florida are all in the same area, so there is active surveillance in the region to see if anyone else gets sick. Public health authorities are also monitoring and trying to control the local mosquito population.

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CNN does not tell us were the four cases in Florida are located but I looked it up and they were all in Sarasota, Florida. IDK what city where the Texas case occured.

Everyone has been cured, probably with...wait for it...HCQ.

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