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Originally Posted by blueash

MMWR / CDC reports that all the cases are P vivax.

You know that agency that some of think is a joke and should even be shut down. Anyway, unlike some other diseases, Malaria is less likely to spread in an area where people have not been exposed in the past.
Counter intuitive... but malaria when it is caught the first time is usually symptomatic meaning new cases will be diagnosed and treated, effectively here if the doctor thinks about malaria.

In areas with endemic malaria there are so many cases that many go undetected providing a reservoir for the next brood of mosquitoes to feed upon.


The reason for the notification is that these cases are not imported as are the usual 2000 cases a year seen in the US where persons come here having caught malaria elsewhere. That means that we have mosquitoes here that are infectious in the Sarasota area.

The usual screen question of "have you recently traveled to ...." is now not an adequate screen. Mosquito life is short and they don't travel more than a few miles from birth to death. Thus the likelihood of significant spread is very remote.

Agree with all of that I suspected it was P. vivax, but I didn't see confirmation, thanks.