MALARIA-CDC report at odds with MD, Va, U. S. military

promed ^ | Nov 8, 2002 | multiple

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Archive Number 20021107.5743 07-NOV-2002 PRO/EDR> Malaria - USA (Virginia) (10) MALARIA - USA (VIRGINIA) (10) ********************** A ProMED-mail post ProMED-mail, a program of the International Society for Infectious Diseases Date: Thu 7 Nov 2002 From: Donald Roberts Statement from the authorities in Maryland and Virginia ---------------------------------------------- The declaration "local transmission disproved" (ProMED-mail dated 25 Oct 2002; 20021104.5709) is a disservice to many in Maryland and Virginia who have worked diligently to gather the best information possible, to make the most careful analyses and interpretations, and to seek confirmation of data and test results. There was no rush to decisions based on preliminary data, and there has been no precipitous public health action.

The facts are that Virginia and Maryland data show local transmission of vivax malaria. The evidence for local transmission was clearly described in CDC's MMWR report "Local transmission of Plasmodium vivax malaria--Virginia 2002," Tuesday, 5 Nov 2002:

GO TO PROMED FOR THE BALANCE OF THIS ARTICLE PLUS CDC DENIAL OF LOCAL TRANSMISSION OF MALARIA.

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Yesterday on Promedmail, the CDC denied the presence of malaria in local mosquitoes that CDC had tested.

The entire story on the two malaria cases in teenagers in the area is on Promed. At the bottom of the article above are numbers you can click on in sequence to get "the rest of the story."

So many different pools of malaria-carrying mosquitoes were found near Washington, D. C. originally that someone suggested the results looked like those in a third world country. The politically correct solution apparently is denial. That way there is no spraying or harming of the environment.