Why is malaria not in mosquitos in the United States?

It used to be. However, eradication efforts combined with prosperity to allow eradication of malaria in the United States. Windows at night were kept closed with the advent of electricity and air conditioning. Windows were screened cheaply. read more

All of these developments prevented the transmission of malaria to mosquitoes from sick people and then from mosquitoes to healthy people. Since malaria is not easily transmissible from person to person (without a lot of blood being exchanged), the chain of transmission was cut. Sadly, it is still very much in place in other countries who cannot afford the advances the United States developed against malaria. read more

Distribution of malaria in the United States, 1882-1935. (Report for Certification and Registration of Malaria Eradication from United States of America published by PAHO/WHO, December 1969) The goal of most current National Malaria Prevention and Control Programs and most malaria activities conducted in endemic countries is to reducethe number of malaria-related cases and deaths. read more

The mosquito that transmits malaria, Anopheles, is found throughout much of the United States. If local mosquitoes bite an infected person, those mosquitoes can, in turn, infect local residents (introduced malaria). read more