{"id":4078,"date":"2023-07-11T14:08:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T19:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=4078"},"modified":"2023-07-11T14:21:05","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T19:21:05","slug":"as-sarasotas-malaria-case-count-increases-we-talked-with-researchers-about-whats-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/07\/11\/as-sarasotas-malaria-case-count-increases-we-talked-with-researchers-about-whats-next\/","title":{"rendered":"As Sarasota’s malaria case count increases, we talked with researchers about what’s next"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Herald Tribune<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sarasota County’s outbreak of locally acquired malaria is two cases away from matching the total reported in the last outbreak of the insect-borne disease in the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2003, eight cases of malaria were confirmed in Palm Beach County, with seven of those coming in the months of July and August. Sarasota County’s total was at six as of Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Malaria researchers who spoke with the Herald-Tribune said they don\u2019t know what\u2019s next for Sarasota\u2019s outbreak, but some said they doubted it will become a large-scale outbreak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The latest two cases<\/a>\u00a0were reported the week of June 25-July 1. The report for the following week hasn’t been issued, but is expected to be released soon. The county, along with neighboring Manatee County, is under a mosquito-borne illness alert, and residents are being advised to apply insect repellant and wear long-sleeved shirts and long pants at nighttime. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Locally acquired malaria \u2013 which is malaria that people contract from local mosquitoes \u2013 is very rare in the U.S. The Herald-Tribune spoke with a few professors who are experts in malaria about why the outbreak may have occurred and where it could go from here. One professor noted that it\u2019s very unlikely that the outbreak will become a \u201cCOVID-level epidemic.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another said climate change could potentially cause outbreaks of locally acquired malaria to become larger and more frequent, but noted that it\u2019s too early to tell if that will be the case.<\/p>\n fsXF T<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Herald Tribune Sarasota County’s outbreak of locally acquired malaria is two cases away from matching the total reported in the last outbreak of the insect-borne disease in the U.S. In 2003, eight cases of malaria were confirmed in Palm Beach County, with seven of those coming in the months of July and August. Sarasota County’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malaria"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4079,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4078\/revisions\/4079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}