On Sept. 15, the World Health Organization strongly endorsed the indoor spraying of DDT to control malaria-carrying mosquitoes in developing countries. At a press conference, WHO spokesmen repeatedly ...

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» 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 ...

Michael Skinner didn’t start the experiment with the hypothesis that he’d find a connection between the insecticide DDT and obesity. “We didn’t expect to find that,” he said. “In fact, the frequency ...

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 ...

Following elm spraying on the Madison campus of the University of Wisconsin in 1959-61, at least 232 adult Robins apparently died of DDT poisoning between the extreme dates of 6 April and 20 June with ...