Efforts at malaria control in the 1950s and 1960s successfully used the insecticide DDT and the medicine chloroquine to eliminate the disease in many temperate and subtropical regions.

• 1950及60年代，人们成功以杀虫剂DDT和药物氯化奎宁控制了疟疾，许多温带及亚热带地区的疟疾都已经绝迹。