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The first large-scale engineering operations to control malaria in the United States began in the second decade of the twentieth century. Previous mass-killings of malaria mosquitos had been undertaken only in relatively small demonstration areas, in Cuba and in the Panama Canal Zone. The airplane became an important tool for dispersing insecticides in the battle against malaria and other insect-borne diseases.
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