FILE - This 2014 photo made available by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a feeding female Anopheles gambiae mosquito. The species is a known vector for the parasitic disease malaria. The United States has seen five cases of malaria spread by mosquitos in the last two months...the first time there's been local spread in 20 years. There were four cases detected in Florida and one in Texas, according to a health alert issued Monday, June 26, 2023, by the CDC.
According to officials, malaria is a"mosquito-borne disease caused by a parasite." Over 2,000 cases of malaria are reported per year in the U.S., but most cases occur in people who have returned from overseas travel.Health officials at Sarasota County Mosquito Management Services study specimens of anopheles mosquitoes that cause malaria, in Sarasota, Florida on June 30, 2023.
Malaria symptoms consist of high fever, chills, body aches, diarrhea and vomiting and usually appear 7 to 30 days after an infected bug bites an individual. FILE PHOTO: A mosquito is caught in a plastic box in the eastern German town of Leipzig July 10, 2013.
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