{"id":4436,"date":"2023-08-22T21:26:18","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T02:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=4436"},"modified":"2023-08-22T21:39:17","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T02:39:17","slug":"where-are-the-mosquitoes-that-spread-malaria-in-the-u-s-officials-arent-sure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/08\/22\/where-are-the-mosquitoes-that-spread-malaria-in-the-u-s-officials-arent-sure\/","title":{"rendered":"Where are the mosquitoes that spread malaria in the U.S.? Officials aren&#8217;t sure"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/mosquitoes-spread-malaria-arent-tracked-us-rcna100936\">NBC News<\/a> The U.S. does not routinely track mosquitoes that spread malaria &#8220;because we haven&#8217;t been worried about them,&#8221; one expert said. Concerns over the insects, however, are growing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A ninth case of malaria diagnosed in a person who had not traveled out of the U.S. has experts on alert \u2014 and calling for more surveillance of the mosquitoes that spread the illness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The time to think about the next mosquito-borne disease is not when we find a sick person. It&#8217;s now,&#8221; said Dan Markowski, technical adviser to the American Mosquito Control Association, a nonprofit organization representing groups that monitor mosquito activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While public health officials maintain that Americans&#8217; risk of contracting malaria remains quite low, some experts say the country should increase its surveillance of the specific type of insects responsible for malaria spread: Anopheles mosquitoes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We have not been tracking them in the United States because we haven\u2019t been worried about them,&#8221; said Dr. Photini Sinnis, an expert at the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute in Baltimore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s been decades since U.S. health authorities have had malaria on their radar.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/parasites\/malaria\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Malaria<\/a>, a potentially deadly illness that causes flu-like symptoms such as fever, body aches and extreme chills, sickened thousands of Americans in the early part of the 20th century. The disease spreads via a parasite that gets transmitted to a person through a mosquito bite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Insecticides and elimination<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>of standing water where mosquitoes like to breed wiped out the mosquito-borne illness from the U.S. in the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/malaria\/about\/history\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">early 1950s<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/mosquitoes-spread-malaria-arent-tracked-us-rcna100936\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBC News The U.S. does not routinely track mosquitoes that spread malaria &#8220;because we haven&#8217;t been worried about them,&#8221; one expert said. Concerns over the insects, however, are growing. A ninth case of malaria diagnosed in a person who had not traveled out of the U.S. has experts on alert \u2014 and calling for more [&hellip;]<\/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-4436","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\/4436","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=4436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4437,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4436\/revisions\/4437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}