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...Department of Agriculture had a mournful announcement to make: DDT, the wonderful insecticide that debugged World War II, is losing its effect against mosquitoes...
...first bad news had come from the Air Force, which for four years has been DDTing the marshes near Cocoa, Fla. with signal success. But this year, massed mosquito formations roared out of the swamps once again to puncture young & old. The Air Force fought back with more DDT, but it could not regain command of the air. The Department of Agriculture discovered that the Air Force defeat was due to a new, tough breed of mosquitoes...
...DDT has now become the most powerful of the antimalarial police. New drugs are being perfected to replace quinine and wartime atabrine. The ideal drug, says Dr. Warshaw, must cure (not merely suppress) all forms of malaria. It must be easy to make and take, and so cheap that hundreds of millions of men, women & children all over the world...
...work? O.C.I., which has signed a contract to supervise the plan, was convinced that it would. U.S. State Department officials also felt "pretty optimistic" about it. And other Middle Eastern countries have been impressed enough to start dickering with O.C.I, for similar plans to develop their lands-with soap, DDT...
O.C.I, will start eliminating this abysmal misery not with steel mills and hydroelectric plants, but with cheap soap and DDT. Among the report's specific recommendations for the first year: spray DDT in barns, homes, under sleeping quilts and on the Persians themselves; hire 200 vaccinators and send them out to the villages; begin immediate instruction in elementary midwifery. At Karaj, where the old Shah wanted to build an integrated steel mill, O.C.I, recommends instead a small blast furnace and foundry to produce the pipe which Persia will need during the plan's first phases...