Probable locally acquired mosquito-transmitted Plasmodium vivax infection--Georgia, 1996.
Endemic, mosquitoborne transmission of malaria was interrupted in the United States during the 1940s. Since then, 57 small localized outbreaks of probable mosquito-transmitted malaria in the United States have been reported to CDC. This report summarizes the investigation of a case of Plasmodium vivax infection in a resident of Georgia who had never lived in or visited a malarious area. The results of this investigation suggest that this case probably was acquired through the bite of a locally infected Anopheles sp. mosquito, although a probable source of infection for mosquitoes was not confirmed.
D000818:Animals; D000852:Anopheles; D005845:Georgia / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D016780:Malaria, Vivax / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014171:Transients and Migrants