Word: ddt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...World Health Day last week. No bugles blared to mark the second birthday of the United Nations' World Health Organization. But in Terai, in the far-off foothills of the Himalayas, members of a WHO team journeyed by elephant from village to village, crawled into thatched huts spraying DDT to fight an outbreak of malaria. WHO workers were aboard river boats plying the Rhine from the North Sea to Switzerland, giving boatmen examinations and treatments for venereal diseases which had been, carried from country to country. In Shanghai, a WHO nurse kept up a tuberculosis nursing program that...
...Greeks have a word for it! You speak of the fact that DDT has become ineffective against mosquitoes [TIME, Dec. 5]. Last summer while I was in Crete, a friend of mine said: "Yes, we have flies, and they have been Mithridated." Mithridates was King of Pontus just before the birth of Christ. He was quite unpopular, and made himself immune to poison by taking small and gradually increasing doses [until] he could take without risk something like 26 or 27 poisons...