The Green Killing Fields
The Need for DDT to Defeat Malaria and Re-emerging Diseases
Book
Hardback
225 pages
978-0-8447-4225-0 (ISBN)
Description
With the advent of the modern environmental movement in the 1960s, DDT fell out of favor and was banned in the United States. The campaign to eliminate its use has crippled the malaria control programs of international organizations. This book documents and examines this colossal public health disaster.
With the advent of the modern environmental movement in the 1960s, DDT fell out of favor and was banned in the United States. The campaign to eliminate its use has crippled the malaria control programs of international organizations. This book documents and examines this colossal public health disaster.
With the advent of the modern environmental movement in the 1960s, DDT fell out of favor and was banned in the United States. The campaign to eliminate its use has crippled the malaria control programs of international organizations. This book documents and examines this colossal public health disaster.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Washington DC
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8447-4225-0 (9780844742250)
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