And so the deadly ‘Dengue Season,’ not to mention the onset of the paralysing Chikungunya [read D/Mirror Headlines of 4 Feb ...

On 2 May, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) endorsed the spraying of the insecticide dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane (DDT) inside houses, as part of efforts to control malaria ...

Area spraying (from Airplanes or trucks) is expensive, inefficient and may be self-defeating: some of the Anopheles develop resistance to DDT, thereafter thrive in its presence. The Pause That ...

Her friend wrote that an airplane hired by the state had flown back and forth over her two acres of woods, spraying DDT to control mosquitos. The next day, there were dead songbirds in her yard.