Without a vaccine or treatment for the Zika virus, experts are debating aggressive campaigns for mosquito elimination including the use of DDT (long banned in the U.S.). Critics of the ban on DDT say ...

Oct. 14 (UPI) --In a newly published study, scientists recounted their rediscovery of a fast-acting insecticide DFDT, the forgotten relative of the infamous pesticide DDT. "We set out to study the ...

Thanks to the pragmatism of African health officials and the efforts of some in the U.S. government, the insecticide DDT is still repelling and killing mosquitoes in Africa nations, saving thousands ...

» Will man’s extensive use of DDT upset the balance of nature in our forests, fields, arid streams? FROM ancient times diseases conveyed by insects have been the main cause of casualties in military ...

Censorship was lifted last week from one of the great scientific discoveries of World War II. It is an insecticide called DDT. DDT stopped a typhus epidemic in Naples. It promises to wipe out the ...

The World Health Organization is poised to promote broader use of the controversial pesticide DDT in the battle against malaria. Long banned in the United States because of environmental damage, DDT ...

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A new study in the Journal of the American Chemical Society explores the chemistry as well as the complicated and alarming history of DFDT, a fast-acting insecticide. We set out to study the growth of ...

Climate change can seem like an insurmountable challenge. However, if you look closely at its causes, you'll realize that history is filled with similar health and environmental threats that humanity ...

Ever since DDT came out of the laboratory two years ago, chemists have been trying to improve on the “wonder killer.” Last week a Britisher announced his entry: “Activated DDT,” a concoction of ...

A new study explores the chemistry as well as the complicated and alarming history of DFDT, a fast-acting insecticide. A new study in the Journal of the American Chemical Society explores the ...