Malaria buzz: What increase in US mosquitoes means for health risks

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Malaria buzz: What increase in US mosquitoes means for health risks

Even as mosquito populations are on the rise, public health experts suggest that the cases of malaria found in both Texas and Florida may not be cause for widespread panic.

“I feel confident we have had a good public health response,” said Andrea Berry, an infectious disease expert from the University of Maryland, in an interview with the Washington Examiner. “This is alarm bells for the public health workers. It’s not alarm bells for people.”

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