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UNRRA: The History of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration - Vol. 2

Book by George Woodbridge; Columbia University Press, 1950

Subjects:

United Nations Relief And Rehabilitation Administration--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...spectacular were the campaigns against malaria in Greece and Italy, involving large-scale spraying of DDT in mosquito-breeding regions. 31 In...engineering, and the use of such new products as DDT, penicillin, and sulfa drugs. UNRRA medical...
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The Precautionary Principle: A Critical Appraisal of Environment Risk Assessment

Book by Indur M. Goklany; Cato Institute, 2001

Subjects:

Environmental Risk Assessment

Collections: Entire Library

Goklany argues that selective application of this principle distorts the policy debate.
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Bountiful Harvest: Technology, Food Safety, and the Environment

Book by Thomas R. Degregori; Cato Institute, 2002

Subjects:

Agricultural Innovations, Agriculture--Environmental Aspects, Technology--Philosophy, Technology--Social Aspects

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

In this provocative work, Thomas DeGregori explores many of the revolutionary technological advances of the past century, especially those in agriculture.
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History of Entomology in World War II

Book by Emory C. Cushing; Smithsonian Institution, 1957

Subjects:

Insects As Carriers Of Disease, World War, 1939-1945--Medical And Sanitary Affairs

Collections: History, Entire Library

...insecticidal properties of DDT, probably the most...practical value in malaria control, is its residual...break the chain of malaria transmission is now...effectiveness of DDT as a direct-contact...place for a vicious malaria-carrying mosquito...Saipan. 1. An ATC DDT-oil-spraying C-47...
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Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment

Book by Paul R. Ehrlich, Anne H. Ehrlich, John P. Holdren; W. H. Freeman, 1977

Subjects:

Human Ecology, Pollution, Population

Collections: Entire Library

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DDT and Breast Cancer Revisited: New Findings in an Old Debate

Journal article by John Manuel; Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 115, 2007

Subjects:

Breast cancer--Risk factors, DDT (Insecticide)--Health aspects, DDT--Health aspects, Malaria--Prevention, Mosquito control--Equipment and supplies, Mosquitoes--Control, Mosquitoes--Equipment and supplies

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...promoted as a tool to combat malaria. DDT was widely used as a pesticide...or effective at controlling malaria as DDT. At the same time, most studies...endorsed the indoor spraying of DDT in areas with high rates of malaria. But the authors of the current...
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Reproductive Effects of Occupational DDT Exposure among Male Malaria Control Workers

Journal article by Felix Garcia-Salazar, Esperanza Gallardo-Diaz, Prudencia Ceron-Mireles, Dana Loomis, Victor H. Borja-Aburto; Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 112, 2004

Subjects:

Agriculture, Birth defects, Workers' compensation

Collections: Entire Library

...mosquito control. Mexico used DDT in malaria campaigns until 1999, not only...gt;occupational exposure to DDT in the malaria control program, 1956-1990...Farias P, Danis R, et al. 2001. DDT spraying for malaria control and reproductive function...
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Malaria and Technological Networks: Medical Geography in the Pontine Marshes, Italy, in the 1930s

Journal article by Federico Caprotti; The Geographical Journal, Vol. 172, 2006

Subjects:

Malaria--Control, Malaria--History, Medical geography--Analysis

Collections: Entire Library

...fascism: Plasmodium falciparum was eradicated after the post-war five-year national anti-malaria plan of 1947-52 using dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT). The World Health Organization finally declared Italy malaria-free in 1970, after Plasmodium...
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Malaria: Poverty, Race, and Public Health in the United States

Journal article by Kenneth F. Kiple; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 69, 2003

Subjects:

Malaria: Poverty, Race, and Public Health in the United States (Book)

Collections: History, Entire Library

...larvicidal campaigns. Scholars have given some credit to these efforts for malarias eventual disappearance from the South by 1950 and much credit to the widespread use of DDT that came out of World War II. Yet Humphreys argues that far more critical...
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DDT Risk Assessments

Journal article by Donald R. Roberts; Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 109, 2001

Collections: Entire Library

...Malaria Foundation International. DDT-Malaria: Open Letter. Available: http://www.malaria.org/DDT_signatures.html cited 8 June 2001...9.) World Health Organization. DDT Use in Malaria Prevention and Control. Note for...

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Malaria, Mosquitoes, and DDT: The Toxic War against a Global Disease

Magazine article by Anne Platt Mcginn; World Watch, Vol. 15, May 2002

Subjects:

DDT (Insecticide)--Usage, Malaria--Prevention, Mosquitoes--Control, Pesticides--Usage

Collections: Entire Library

...are reserving the right to use DDT against malaria. On the face of it, such use...compatible with reductions in DDT use. Malaria is caused by four protozoan...control. But the routine use of DDT against malaria is an exercise in toxic futility...
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Better Living through Chemistry: DDT Could Save Millions of Africans from Dying of Malaria-If Only Environmentalists Would Let It

Magazine article by Alexander Gourevitch; Washington Monthly, Vol. 35, March 2003

Subjects:

DDT (Insecticide)--Health aspects, DDT (Insecticide)--Usage, Malaria--Safety and security measures

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...international assistance to fund a DDT-based malarial eradication project. "We hope...government launched an ambitious DDT-centered malaria eradication project which by...almost nobody who supports using DDT to combat malaria wants to see it come back into...
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Africa's Other Deadly Plague: Malaria Kills One Child under Age 5 Every 30 Seconds. DDT Stops the Disease, but Environmentalists Still Oppose It, despite That Controlled Use Seems Harmless to Humans

Magazine article by Tom Carter; Insight on the News, Vol. 18, August 5, 2002

Subjects:

DDT (Insecticide)--Health aspects, Infants--Mortality, Malaria--Prevention, Mosquitoes--Biological control

Collections: Entire Library

...50 years, South Africa used DDT to control malaria. But in 1996 its new democratic...the results were staggering. DDT eradicated malaria in southern Europe and the...Carroll, who heads USAIDs malaria program. "DDT procurement by USAID is not...
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One Cheer for DDT? Forty Years after Silent Spring, Resurgent Malaria Gives New Life to an Old Killer

Magazine article by Stephen Bocking; Alternatives Journal, Vol. 30, September 2004

Subjects:

DDT (Insecticide)--Laws, regulations and rules, DDT--Laws, regulations and rules, Malaria--Causes of, Pesticides--Influence, Pesticides--Laws, regulations and rules, Pesticides--Risk factors

Collections: Entire Library

...Swaziland never stopped using DDT, and malaria remains a relatively minor...their own country. Roll Back Malaria itself discourages DDT use, urging instead medical...articles on the science of malaria and DDT. These are available at: www...
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The Silent Pandemic: While Exotic Diseases like Bird Flu and SARS Get All the Attention, Malaria Is Still Killing Millions in Africa, despite the Fact That DDT Remains an Effective and Affordable Solution

Magazine article by Dennis Behreandt; The New American, Vol. 22, September 4, 2006

Subjects:

DDT (Insecticide)--Usage, DDT--Usage, Malaria--Care and treatment, Malaria--Prevention

Collections: Entire Library

...of DDT promises to end the malaria nightmare. Banning DDT DDT, or Dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane...infection soared to nearly pre-DDT levels. Malaria in Africa The incredible...to the widespread use of DDT to combat malaria in Africa and elsewhere has...

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U.S. Takes New View on DDT in Africa; Insecticide Best to Fight Malaria

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 3, 2006

Subjects:

Environmental activists, Environmentalists, Malaria

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...said, USAID will begin using DDT as part of malaria-control efforts in three...problems. Trenton Ruebush, malaria adviser with USAID, said DDT spraying under PMI "could...country-by-country exemptions" for use of DDT in malaria control, Ms. Schafer pointed...
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WHO Backs DDT to Rid Malaria; Pesticide Gets 'Clean Bill of Health'; Use Urged to Save Africans

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 16, 2006

Subjects:

World Health Organization

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

WHO Backs DDT to Rid Malaria; Pesticide Gets Clean Bill of...years to reinstate the use of DDT in the battle against malaria called yesterdays announcement...director of Africa Fighting Malaria, agreed. "DDT is the most studied of man-made...
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Research Center Favors DDT Use; Malaria Toll Trumps Ecological Threat

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 9, 2003

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Research center favors DDT use; Malaria toll trumps ecological threat...come out in favor of using DDT to stem the toll of malaria in the country, reigniting...control lice and typhus. DDT was used to eradicate malaria in the United States, but...
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Use of DDT Urged in Malaria Fight

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 16, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Use of DDT Urged in Malaria Fight. Byline...director of Africa Fighting Malaria. He was referring to indoor spraying of DDT, the insecticide banned...Zambia as nations that use DDT safely to combat malaria. Mr. Bate also charged...
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Malaria and DDT

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 23, 2002

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Malaria and DDT Byline: David Jones, THE WASHINGTON TIMES Malaria and DDT The "Special Reports" that run in the...But Tom Carters report last week on malaria and DDT broke all records with a gestation period...

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Ddt

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...particularly in tropical regions, to control the mosquitoes that spread malaria . In 2001 the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants called for the phasing out of DDT once a cost-effective alternative becomes available...
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Malaria

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...its product, quinine , have been used in the treatment of malaria for centuries. After World War II, they were largely replaced...chloroquine. The use of chloroquine, in addition to the use of DDT for mosquito control, was expected to eradicate the disease...
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Tropical Medicine

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...efficient synthetic antimalarial drugs. DDT, introduced in World War II to eradicate the malaria-carrying mosquito, has been found...China for rice pests has produced DDT-resistant mosquitoes that now carry malaria. Resistance of the malarial parasite...

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