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- A major chemical industry sprang up after the discovery of the potent insecticidal properties of DDT.
- The book had a powerful influence, and governments throughout the world banned DDT and other pesticides.
- DDT was applied widely as an insecticide in North America until it was banned in 1972.
- Many ecologists blamed the usual suspects for the bird losses: DDT, defoliants, avian malaria, suburban blight.
- The bald eagle population on the islands was eliminated by DDT poisoning in the early 1960s.
- The arrival of the insecticide DDT, which was effective against malaria-carrying mosquitoes and typhus-bearing lice, seemed to be a miracle.
- After the war, DDT came into use for commercial and public health purposes.
- Farmers used DDT to protect cash crops like cotton, corn, and apples from a wide variety of agricultural pests.
- In a long-term joint effort, city and state biologists are identifying, monitoring and studying the falcons, which nearly faced extinction in the 1960s from the pesticide DDT.
- The insecticide DDT has long been a prime target of anti-chemical and anti-pesticide campaigners.
- After the Second World War, Europe and North America used DDT to eradicate malaria.
- Since DDT was reintroduced in South Africa in April 2000, the number of mosquitoes is down.
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