Seventy years ago, all over the world, malaria was killing hundreds of thousands of people — until a powerful new weapon practically wiped out the mosquito-borne disease.

A study published on April 14 in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention revealed that women whose grandmothers were exposed to the now-banned chemical known as DDT are seeing the ...

Our story is about a pesticide. People are often worried about pesticides because they are toxic chemicals. Pesticides are toxic, so that they can kill things — like bugs. DDT is a bug spray. It was ...

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Thanks to the pragmatism of African health officials and the efforts of some in the U.S. government, the insecticide DDT is still repelling and killing mosquitoes in Africa nations, saving thousands ...

» Will man’s extensive use of DDT upset the balance of nature in our forests, fields, arid streams? FROM ancient times diseases conveyed by insects have been the main cause of casualties in military ...

DDT, the wonder insecticide (TIME, June 12), was last week credited with the most crushing blitz of its career. Three months ago Pennsylvania’s Department of Agriculture decided to try the deadly ...

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DDT, the wonder insecticide, which has been second only to penicillin as the biggest continuing science news of 1944 (TIME, June 12 et seg.), was at it again last week. Its latest performances: ¶ A ...

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