Malaria Rates in Central America

Although CDC declared that there is no risk for malaria to American travelers in Costa Rica as of 2014, six of eleven cases reported by the latter in 2017 were classified as “autochthonous”. [1]  For much of the past fifty years, Costa Rica has reported the lowest rates of malaria in Central America; and rates for the entire region have decreased dramatically since 2000 [2,3] References: https://www.ministeriodesalud.go.cr/index.php/vigilancia-de-la-salud/boletines/enfermedades-de-transmision-vectorial-2017/3443-boletin-epidemiologico-no-31-2017-zika-chikungunya-y-dengue/file Berger SA. Malaria: Global Status, 2018. 497 pages, 557 graphs, 4,802 references. Gideon e-books,  https://www.gideononline.com/ebooks/disease/malaria-global-status/ Berger SA. Infectious Diseases of Costa Rica, 2018. 328 pages, 120 graphs, 371 references. Gideon e-books,  https://www.gideononline.com/ebooks/country/infectious-diseases-of-costa-rica/ The post Malaria Rates in Central America appeared first on GIDEON - Global Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology Online Network.
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