MORRIS COUNTY (WABC) -- New Jersey health officials are investigating a case of malaria in Morris County with no international travel.

The New Jersey Department of Health is working with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to investigate potential sources of infection. Officials say it is possible the resident was infected with malaria in New Jersey.

If confirmed, this would be the first known locally acquired case of malaria in the state since 1991.

It comes a few weeks after a local health department in Washington State were investigating an unrelated malaria case in a person who also did not travel internationally.

Malaria is a mosquito-borne disease caused by a parasite transmitted by certain mosquitoes and is widespread in many tropical and subtropical count

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