Let ours be the generation that ends malaria once and for all—because whether in Maryland or Madagascar or the Mekong, no one should die of a mosquito bite.
, is cause for some measured concern. Although all patients were promptly treated at area hospitals and are recovering, the recent cases are the first since 2003 to be caused by domestic mosquitoes that appear to have bitten one person with malaria and transmitted the parasite to another person.
But focusing on the cases in Maryland, or Florida, or Texas, only tells one piece of a much larger story. Health officials at Sarasota County Mosquito Management Services study specimens of anopheles mosquitoes that cause malaria, in Sarasota, Florida on June 30, 2023. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an alert June 26 after five cases of malaria were confirmed, the first locally acquired cases of the disease in the United States in 20 years.
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