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Published online 13 July 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news010719-3
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Association between maternal serum concentration of the DDT metabolite DDE and preterm and small-for-gestational-age babies at birth
DDT is in the dock again, this time for making babies arrive smaller and sooner.
Exposure to DDT may have caused premature births, increasing infant mortality in the United States during the 1960s. Banned in the developed world, DDT - a cheap and highly effective insecticide - is still widely used to control malaria-carrying mosquitoes in the developing world.
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