WASHINGTON, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Mosquitoes that carry malaria, dengue fever and yellow fever avoid homes that have been sprayed with DDT, researchers reported on Wednesday. The chemical not only repels ...

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 ...

Disturbed by the fact that Nigeria alone bears at least 40 per cent of the scourges of Malaria in Africa, an expert has advocated the use of DDT (Dichlorodiphenyl Trichloroe thane or a special form of ...

Oct. 14 (UPI) --In a newly published study, scientists recounted their rediscovery of a fast-acting insecticide DFDT, the forgotten relative of the infamous pesticide DDT. "We set out to study the ...

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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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