About 1,500 cases of malaria are diagnosed in the United States each year. The vast majority of cases in the United States are in travelers and immigrants returning from parts of the world where malaria transmission occurs, including sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
Malaria is not spread from person to person like a cold or the flu, and it cannot be sexually transmitted. You cannot get malaria from casual contact with malaria-infected people, such as sitting next to someone who has malaria.
http://www.cdc.gov/malaria/about/faqs.html
Malaria is not spread from person to person like a cold or the flu,
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I was focused on the description of procedures.
It should be noted the transportation (via bus) for other possibly infected persons, there is no plan to identify.
And also in the article describes he was sent to Toledo Hospital for testing which may not be approved for this type of testing?
From article:
“He did not come in JFK or one of the five CDC-assigned airports so he wasn’t screened there, and then he had two nights to hang around New Jersey before he got a Greyhound bus, so kind of thank God that he doesn’t have this,” he said.