Word: ddt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years since the discovery that the disease is transmitted by mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles, men of medicine have had periodic fevers of hope about wiping out malaria-with the old drug quinine, with new drugs such as quinacrine, or with mosquito-killing DDT. But malaria proved to be an unexpectedly formidable...
...granted, the right to a passport has only recently been constricted. It has nearly reached the point where it permits only the pure in heart to travel to those countries where it permits only the pure in heart to travel to those countries where a liberal does of moral DDT has been applied...
...INSECT SPRAY (DDT): wash out the stomach, give cathartic of sodium sulfate...
...wholesale use of cosmetics has posed new problems. Last week FDA scientists and lab technicians were busy rubbing salves containing rouge, mascara, eye shadow and pancake makeup on shaved areas of rabbits or guinea pigs to test for irritating effects. The neotoxic age has brought DDT and still more lethal sprays, some of which stay on fruits and vegetables all the way to the dinner table. FDA permits only the minutest residues, has devised tests that will detect less than a billionth of an ounce of pesticide...
...bomber base for the invasion of southern France. They ran up against the malaria that infested the coastal marshes and that throughout history has kept invaders back and the islanders down. Thereafter, by one of the most intensive campaigns ever waged against malaria, U.S. and Italian DDT teams banished the anopheles mosquito that had helped stunt the development of a people long accounted the smallest of Italians. Since 1950 there has not been a single new case of malaria in Sardinia...