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[https://www.npr.org/2003/03/11/1188426/using-ddt-to-battle-malaria by Jason Beaubien 11/3/03 npr] | [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. | 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. | ||
=====Malaria Wins Round 2; Malaria Wins Round 2===== | |||
[https://www.nytimes.com/1966/09/25/archives/malaria-wins-round-2-malaria-wins-round-2.html by C.p. Gilmore The New York Times] | |||
"W 'E thought we had malaria under control in World War II," says Col. William D. Tigertt, director of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. "But now, 20 years later, we still face the same problems." The problems Colonel Tigertt refers to exploded violently in Vietnam last fall. United States troops by the hundreds suddenly began coming down with a virulent strain of malaria against which even the most potent wonder drugs were strangely powerless. | |||
