"Exposure to DDT at amounts that would be needed in malaria control might cause preterm birth and early weaning... " Amidst staggering mortality and morbidity rates due to malaria in the African ...

INGWAVUMA, South Africa – In this lush countryside bordering the Indian Ocean, malaria strikes so rarely that Hervey Williams, chief physician at Mosvold Hospital, finds it difficult to remember ...

Although production and use of DDT have been banned throughout most of the world for decades, people continue to carry the pesticide’s residues in their bodies. That’s a concern because animal studies ...

The insecticide DDT has been very successfully used for many years in malaria control programmes around the world. We assess the validity of the allegations that DDT is harmful to human health and the ...

We assessed exposure of applicators, health risk of DDT to the applicators and evaluated the applicability of existing pesticide exposure models for indoor residual spraying (IRS). Patch sampling for ...

» 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 ...