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[https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2006/1/18/wristwatch-to-detect-malaria by Reuters 18/1/06 ALJAZEERA] | [https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2006/1/18/wristwatch-to-detect-malaria by Reuters 18/1/06 ALJAZEERA] | ||
Malaria, caused by a parasite carried by mosquitoes, kills more than one million people every year and makes 300 million seriously ill, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). | Malaria, caused by a parasite carried by mosquitoes, kills more than one million people every year and makes 300 million seriously ill, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). | ||
=====Using DDT to Battle Malaria===== | |||
[https://www.npr.org/2003/03/11/1188426/using-ddt-to-battle-malaria by Jason Beaubien 11/3/03 npr] | |||
The United States banned DDT in 1972 and environmental groups are trying to outlaw the pesticide worldwide. But in developing countries, it continues to be a cost-effective way to combat malaria, a disease that kills more than 1 million people a year in Africa. | |||
