Eli5: Why is there no malaria in Italy despite having so many mosquitos

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I’m in Italy currently and did not need to take any malaria tablets to come here. However I’m being assaulted by mosquitoes since coming here and after Googling I found malaria was eradicated in the 1960’s but can’t find out how exactly

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The fight against malaria in Italy has been a long and strenuous one. Explained in a few words, It got better after Italy started implementing the use of DDT (a chemical) to get rid of Mosquitos around all of Italy and they eventually made it. But it took a lot of time and effort until they made it, the history about it is pretty interesting but I didn’t search for an English source (I got the Italian one).

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