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DDT returns

Nature Medicine volume 12, pages 870–871 (2006)Cite this article

The most infamous pesticide in history is also the most effective weapon against malaria. Ready or not, DDT is on its way back to Africa. Apoorva Mandavilli reports.

But here it is, poised for a comeback.

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