By this point, over five million homes have been sprayed with dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT), and multiple mosquito breeding sites have been drained.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports: "In 1947, 15,000 malaria cases were reported. By 1950, only 2,000 cases were reported. By 1951, malaria was considered eliminated from the United States" (CDC, 2018).