Word: ddt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Barton Akeley, who had been popular with his students but not with the town ("My beard, my beret. They just can't take idiosyncrasies"). When some of the students picketed in protest, Ashby was outraged. At his convocation, he promised to eliminate "termites" with a squirt of DDT (TIME...
...Basel, looking for a drug to protect plants against insects. Trying one combination of chemicals after another, he finally found one that killed flies. He took some of the stuff home, and discovered that it killed mosquitoes too. Dr. Mller's compound was dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane-or DDT...
Last week Dr. Müller, no medical man, was awarded the 1948 Nobel Prize in medicine. Said he: "It came as a surprise to me that DDT proved so useful in the fight against diseases in human beings...
Despite Dr. Müller's surprise, DDT's place in preventive medicine is secure. It kills the mosquitoes that carry malaria, the flies that carry cholera, the lice that carry typhus, the fleas that carry the plague, the sand flies that carry kalaazar and other tropical diseases. Because of DDT, the tropics are becoming safer places to live; because of it typhus was no serious threat in World...
...methods? The plague is spread in a double bacillus play from rats to fleas to man; men usually catch it not from flea bites, but from rubbing flea vomit or feces into the skin. Science tries to kill the rats by new, powerful poisons like "1080," the fleas with DDT (see above), attack the disease itself with modern medicines and vaccines...