Florida Department of Health issues statewide advisory on mosquito-borne illnesses after four people contract malaria. Another 'locally acquired' case has also been reported in Texas.
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Four people in Sarasota County, Florida, and one person in Cameron County, Texas, reported cases of the mosquito-borne illness, state officials said. Cameron County is the southernmost county in Texas, about 1,300 miles away from Sarasota, Florida.mosquito-borne illness advisory from the Florida Department of Health released Monday.
The illness is caused when a person is bitten by a mosquito carrying malaria parasites, the CDC said. Malaria isn't contagious and can't be spread person-to-person. There are around 2,000 malaria cases a year, the CDC said, but they're most often diagnosed in people who caught the disease while abroad.
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