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From: Ron	9/14/2006 8:50:29 PM
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A Comeback for DDT The World Health Organization, conceding that widely used malaria-fighting methods have failed to bring the catastrophic disease under control, plans to announce that it will encourage the use of DDT even though the pesticide has been banned or tightly restricted in many parts of the world. The new guidelines would include plans to spray DDT, or dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane, in small amounts on walls and other surfaces inside homes in areas at highest risk of malaria. The disease is carried by mosquitoes and infects as many as 500 million people a year. Malaria causes about one million deaths a year, and most of its victims are in sub-Saharan Africa. ocala.com more on DDT: en.wikipedia.org

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