By Marie Rosenthal, MS
Finding a domestic case of malaria puts everyone in high gear, according to Andrea Morrison, PhD, a vector-borne disease surveillance coordinator, Florida Department of Health, Division of Disease Control and Health Protection, Bureau of Epidemiology, in Tallahassee.
Even as late as the early 1900s, vector-borne diseases like malaria and dengue were common in states such as Florida, which had perfect breeding grounds for mosquitoes. The state eliminated malaria in the late