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Re: There was never a DDT ban

Will wrote:

The WHO has always advocated limited indoor use of DDT to combat the spread of malaria.

Indeed. But didn't it cease advocating its widespread use 30 years ago? Didn't it actively promote indoor residual spraying for malaria control until the early 1980s, and did it not then focus instead on other measures because of (among other reasons) health and environmental fears about DDT? Which it now considers mistaken?

by Editor on Mon, 10/16/2006 - 01:08

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