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Health of­fi­cials have con­firmed an eighth case of malar­ia in Trinidad and To­ba­go for 2025, fol­low­ing en­hanced sur­veil­lance ef­forts in south Trinidad.

The case was iden­ti­fied by the In­sect Vec­tor Con­trol Di­vi­sion (IVCD) as part of on­go­ing mon­i­tor­ing un­der the Min­istry of Health’s (MOH) malar­ia pre­ven­tion and con­trol pro­to­cols.

Malar­ia is not cur­rent­ly en­dem­ic to Trinidad and To­ba­go. How­ev­er, be­tween 2015 and 2024, health au­thor­i­ties record­ed 153 con­firmed cas­es—an av­er­age of 15 per year—with most be­ing im­port­ed or in­tro­duced from abroad.