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In September 1991, the New Jersey Department of Health received two case reports of Plasmodium vivax malaria presumed to have been locally acquired in New Jersey. Both patients reported no known exposure to malaria, including travel to areas of endemic disease.

Case Reports

Patient 1

Patient 1 was a 29-year-old woman who presented to her physician on September 9, 1991, with a four-day history of fevers (temperature, up to 39.9 °C [103.8 °F]), chills, headache, and a petechial rash on her legs. A blood smear, obtained four days earlier as part of a workup for hemochromatosis and just hours before the fevers started, demonstrated . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Patient 2

Epidemiology

Discussion

Source Information

From the Division of Epidemiology, Environmental and Occupational Health Services, New Jersey Department of Health, Trenton (J.H.B., C.A.G., K.C.S.); and the Malaria Branch, Division of Parasitic Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta (P.B.B., J.R.Z.).

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