If you are planning a trip abroad this summer, it might be a good idea to grab your mosquito spray because a new report suggests the mosquito-bourne illness malaria is on the rise in the U.S.
According to the report published April 24 in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, although endemic malaria was effectively wiped out in the United States in the 1950s, more than 2,000 people in the U.S. return from visits abroad with malaria every year.
The study’s lead researcher, Diana Khuu, an epidemiologist at the Fielding School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles, told LiveScience that it is important that everyone take preventative measures to avoid contracting malaria.
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