Originally Posted by mulp

Malaria is presently on the increase, and more cases exist today than a century ago, although that is a result of the much larger population. Or maybe the only thing that has changed is the attention paid to it. But the increase in displaced people is certainly placing more people at risk. But war is one of the common benefits, or costs, of capitalism without a rule of law that treats indigenous people as the true owners of property.

Malaria isn't a problem in the US because malaria isn't a problem in the US.

However, if malaria were to infect a significant population in the US, say among the poor in some rural gulf state, even the rich who spend time outside would be at risk of getting it. The best protection the billionaire outdoors man has with today's options is to treat those poor with malaria and do everything to prevent them from being bitten by mosquitoes, not by killing all the mosquitoes, but by providing the poor with treatment, screens on their housing, bed nets, insect repellents, periodic treatment of their work and housing with insecticides.

Trying to kill all the mosquitoes is a futile process and at best the populations in a local area can be controlled. Of course, that can have negative impacts on agriculture in the short term, killing off the bugs that go after bugs that go after the food crops that we value, and the bugs that go after us, and in the long term, produce variants of bugs that are resistant to the insecticides.