An adult female Anopheles mosquito bites a human body. Health officials are investigating a case of possibly locally acquired malaria in New Jersey, just weeks after a health department in Washington State launched a similar investigation. The cases are ...

There are about 100 travel-associated cases of malaria reported in New Jersey each year, officials said. Locally-acquired malaria typically occurs when a mosquito bites a person infected with travel-associated malaria, acquiring the parasite, and then bites another person, passing on the infection.