2023-07-07 06:25:30
7 julio, 2023
health authorities of USA Two cases of locally acquired malaria have been reported in Sarasota County, Florida, bringing the total number of cases reported so far in 2023 to six
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About 2,000 cases of malaria are diagnosed in the United States each year, the vast majority in travelers from countries where the disease is widely spread.
2023. June 27 5 cases of autochthonous malaria in Florida and Texas; June Cameron County, Texas. June One new case in Florida; May. Indigenous case of malaria in Florida.
1990. June. Florida once more reported a case of human malaria ( P. vivax ) following 42 years without cases. He was presumably acquired through a mosquito bite in Gulf County.
1996. Two induced cases of infection by P. falciparum which occurred in Broward County in 1996 and were likely related to iatrogenic spread in a hospital setting where a patient was being treated for imported malaria infection.
1996. 2 cases of cryptic malaria by P. vivax in Palm Beach County. One of these cases was in a homeless man and the other was in a resident living in a nearby area.
2003. The largest outbreak of P. vivax in recent Florida history (with 8 cases) occurred in Palm Beach County in an area located very close to the 1996 Palm Beach County malaria cases.
2009. A Manatee County resident purchased P. falciparum through a blood transfusion.
2010. November. An infection by P. falciparum of cryptic origin (possibly acquired in Florida) in Duval County.
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