Malaria???

[Heavenly]

Has anyone heard of someone getting malaria when they haven't travelled outside of North America. My husband has been really sick for a couple of weeks. The doctor did a bunch of tests and didn't come up with anything except low red blood cell count (which is has never had before). They did an ultrasound and a chest xray and both were fine. His symptoms are fever, chills, shaking, excessive sweating, headache and weakness. His symptoms are cyclical - he starts out the day with chills and shaking then his fever starts to rise and gets really high and then he sweats profusely which brings the fever down and then he gets the chills and the cycle continues. So he was back at the doctor today and the doctor told him that as crazy as it sounds his symptoms fit the possibility of malaria. It would also explain the low red blood cells. He said that there are approx. 1000 cases a year in Canada where a person gets a case of imported malaria - which means that someone has brought malaria into Canada, a mosquito bites that person, and then that infect mosquito bites someone. A low chance but possible. He is also testing him for Lyme disease and West Nile Virus but he said he really doesn't think it is either of those. I just don't see how it could be possible but they are running out of ideas. The doctor admits to being baffled. They are also still waiting for the blood culturing to get back to see if there is an infection in the blood. I don't know what to think. It will be 2-3 days before we get any answers.