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Could malaria have been eradicated worldwide in the 1960s? 3 years ago, when I wrote about the malaria vaccine's history, I described the Global Malaria Eradication Program, launched in 1955 to eradicate malaria with DDT and other powerful insecticides worldwide... except in sub-saharan Africa.

Malaria elimination succeeded in much of the world, including Europe, North America, Australia, and much of Asia…

But all sub-Saharan African countries had been ‘excluded from the eradication programme, for physical, economic and developmental reasons complicated by high endemicity and prolonged transmission factors’, as the WHO noted in 1957.