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The History of the Anti-Mosquito Campaign
In the 1920s, anti-mosquito campaigns were pretty much set up across the US. Florida seemed to be strangely resistant - they love their mosquitoes down there. The first strategy of this campaign was to essentially use oil as they did in Panama and dump it in mosquito breeding grounds. But a bunch of fish died, other animals use like any aquatic animals. Plants also died. And so they were like, we need another solution.