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The US eliminated malaria in 1951

Source: By Meg Tirrell, CNN / Wed August 16, 2023

The approach is one of several new technologies being developed in humanity’s centuries-long battle with mosquito-borne diseases. Other recent approaches include genetically modifying the bugs so they can’t produce viable offspring or even programming them with a technology known as a gene drive that would wipe out their entire population.


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