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Yes and you still get bit in the US but malaria is a thing of the past.

The point is not to get rid of all mosquitos, just the disease-carrying ones.

Aren't all mosquitos that bite humans potentially the disease-carrying ones? In the US we've just been fairly lucky but it's not as if mosquitos carrying West Nile/Zika/Chikungunya/Eastern Equine Encephalitis aren't infecting Americans

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