Malaria

Reviewed: August 2017

Malaria is a serious and sometimes fatal disease caused by the bite of a mosquito infected with one of four malaria blood parasites. Infected female mosquitoes are responsible for the spread of human disease. In the United States, most infections are a result of travel to foreign countries. Rare instances of local spread of malaria have occurred in Long Island and New York City.

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