Prevention of malaria and many other vector-borne diseases involves Wearing long-sleeved shirts and pants Applying diethyltoluamide (DEET) - containing insect repellants to exposed skin and permethrin to clothing Using window screens, air-conditioning, and bed nets impregnated with permethrin or other insecticides For residents of nonendemic areas who travel in regions where malaria is transmitted, taking prophylactic antimalarial medications Travelers to rural Latin America should not sleep in adobe dwellings where reduviid bugs can transmit Chagas disease.