Posted on 10/06/2023 6:06:08 PM PDT by Libloather
A case of malaria has been confirmed in Arkansas and is the first locally acquired case in the state in at least 40 years.
The patient, who was not named, lives in Saline County and had not recently traveled out of the country.
The case makes Arkansas the fourth state to report a locally acquired case of the disease this year, in another sign the disease may be gaining a foothold in the US for the first time in two decades.
The patient was also the tenth to be infected on US soil this year, after seven locally-acquired infections were detected in Florida and one each in Texas and Maryland — with the first case detected in May.
Dr Naveen Patil, the deputy health officer for the state, said this was the first time a local case of malaria had been detected in Arkansas since at least 1980.
He told local news channel KARK: '[It's been] maybe 30 to 40 years from since we've been tracking, we have not had a case of locally-acquired malaria in our state.'
Arkansas has reported five other cases of malaria this year, but each of those was linked to travel outside of the country.
The local health department is now capturing and testing local mosquitoes to establish where the local case could have come from.
They will then likely carry out pesticide spraying in areas where they there are mosquitoes that are carrying malaria.
Malaria cannot be spread from person to person, but mosquitoes can become infected when they bite a malaria patient — and then spread the disease when they bite another human.
Malaria has not transmitted locally in the US since 2003 when an outbreak in Florida led to eight infections.
The disease still appears sporadically, however, because it is brought in...
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Illegal Aliens brought this to your Country. F Joe Biden.
New York sees a surge in tuberculosis cases amid migrant influx and Covid fatigue
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12603141/New-York-tuberculosis-Covid-migrant.html
Give it time. They are probably bringing that crap across the southern border.
Yes 10 miles from me...
> Illegal Aliens brought this to your Country. F Joe Biden. <
I don’t think we’ve seen anything yet.
One hundred years ago, immigrants were screened at Ellis Island. Sick people were turned away. Today, there is no screening. Cross the border, and get a hotel voucher. Then go stand on the sidewalk and hack and cough.
Immigrant kids are now being sent to crowded schools without any vaccination papers. No polio shots. No diphtheria shots. Etc. It’s insane.
No surprise, just the result of allowing unvetted illegals into our Country,,,,thanks Joe.
I don’t know the last time I saw a mosquito fogging truck. They help.
My Brother is in Saline County.
Bill Gates.
what about Bill Gates’ genetically modified mosquitoes?
Ivermectin
When I was a kid we used to run behind that thing.
Haven’t seen one of those thing in over fifty years.
Thank you Rachel Carson, you stupid bitch.
Nyctb
agreed...
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