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aug 29, 1939 - Malaria & DDT

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Paul Hermann Muller decided to test DDT. DDT was widely used to combat malaria and other mosquito vectors that carried disease. It was sprayed into building walls in malaria endemic areas to prevent mosquitoes from transmitting the disease

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aug 29, 1939
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~ 86 years ago