Malaria

Malaria Malaria Malaria is a serious, infectious disease spread by certain mosquitoes. It is most common in tropical climates. It is characterized by recurrent symptoms of chills, fever, and an enlarged spleen. The disease can be treated with medication, but it often recurs. Malaria is endemic (occurs frequently in a particular locality) in many third world countries. Isolated, small outbreaks sometimes occur within the boundaries of the United States, with most of the cases reported as having been imported from other locations. Description Malaria is not a serious problem in the United States. Within the last 10 years, only about 1,200 cases have been reported each year in this country, mostly by people who were infected elsewhere. Locally transmitted malaria has occurred in California, Florida, Texas, Michigan, New Jersey, and New York City. While malaria can be transmitted in blood, the American blood supply is not screened for malaria. Widespread malarial epidemics are far less likely to occur in the United States, but small, localized epidemics could return to the western world. The picture is far more bleak outside the territorial boundaries of the United States. A recent government panel warned that disaster looms over Africa from the disease. Malaria infects between 300 and 500 malaria, blood, parasite, falciparum, drug, antimalarial, united, treatment, symptoms, states, should, people, mosquito, resistance, drugs, chloroquine, africa, patient, infection, infected, been, areas, quinine, first, fever, because, after, years, world, western, severe, possible, plasmodium, parasites, one, mosquitoes