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The Positive Effects Of DDT
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In the United States, the media has a tendency to report only the
negative details of everything. Such was the case in the late 1960’s and
early 1970’s when the pesticide DDT was investigated and eventually
prohibited. Most of the claims against DDT remain unproved to this day.
There were three m ....
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....dy lice without having harmful side-affects on humans. The
elimination of the lice resulted in the absence of typhus fever (which was
carried by the lice) among the Allied troops for the first time in the
history of warfare. After the insecticidal effects of DDT had been
discovered and proven during the war, scientists soon found that DDT was
effective against all sorts of other insects including the spruce budworm,
gypsy moth, tussock moth, pine weevil, and cotton boll weevil (Ray 68).
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