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Re:How We Realized Putting Radium in Everything Was Not the ... by crdotson on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @10:05PM (#20291160)
Probably a bad example. A lot more people died from malaria than would ever have been harmed by DDT.
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Re:How We Realized Putting Radium in Everything Was Not the ... by User23 on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @11:00PM (#20291397)
Most people have no idea malaria was endemic in the USA as far north as New York State. The advantage of the DDT saturation was that it wiped out the disease reservoir completely, precisely because it persisted in the environment. Modern "responsible" DDT usage (treated nets, wall spraying, etc) is just breeding resistant mosquitoes.
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