National Malaria Eradication Program News Today

The Zamfara State commissioner of Health, Dr. Aisha Anka has directed all staff and facilities under her Ministry to join forces with the state government

“We thought we had defeated malaria,” says Dr. Emily Landon, executive medical director of Infection Prevention and Control at UChicago Medicine.

A new case of malaria in the United States has prompted calls for increased mosquito surveillance. Health experts have called for more mosquito monitoring after another US resident was diagnosed with malaria.

The Maryland Department of Health reported its first locally acquired malaria case in more than four decades. State officials said late last week that a Maryland resident tested positive for malaria despite not having traveled outside of the United States or to another U.S. state with recent malaria cases. “Malaria was once common in the United…

The US CDC issued an alert after malaria of local origin was discovered in several cases in Florida and Texas. These are the first such cases in two decades.

This is the first time locally acquired infections of the disease have been detected in the U.S. in 20 years.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a health advisory over the spread of a few malaria cases in Florida and Texas, marking the first time locally acquired infections of the disease have been detected in the U.S. in 20 years. Five cases of malaria caught by people in the U.S. have…