Dr. Christopher Lourenço, PhD | Source | Deputy Director, Malaria at Population Services International
Dr. Christopher Lourenço, PhD
Deputy Director, Malaria at Population Services International
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Dr. Lourenço provides technical guidance and direction for PSI’s malaria department, focusing on the quality of programmatic delivery and technical strategy. He holds a Ph.D. in Malaria Surveillance Systems in Elimination Settings.
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It’s a vector-borne disease. So this isn’t something that someone’s going to breathe on you and you’re going to get it. The risk of getting onward transmission is rare. Yes, those mosquitoes exist, those anopheles mosquitoes exist that can transmit malaria, but they’ve always been there too. So it’s just that reminder that this is really a rarity.
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Why Locally-Transmitted Malaria Cases in the U.S. are a Big Deal
For the first time in 20 years, the CDC announced this week that they had identified at least 5 locally-transmitted malaria cases in the U.S.
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