A half-century after DDT killed eagles, poisoned fish, and despoiled the landscape, the Zika virus emergency has prompted calls to bring back the pesticide. Conservative groups such as the National ...

Slightly more than four decades ago, the U.S. banned the use of the pesticide dichlorodiphenyltrichlororethane (thankfully, DDT, for short) which must certainly ...

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The BUSPH Practice Office will host an event for the “Public Health in Action” series, which features case studies on important public health concerns and how what you learn in the classroom plays out ...

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 ...