DDT ban didn’t stop U.S. polio epidemic, vaccines did If Your Time is short Polio is caused by the poliovirus, not DDT pesticide, and a vaccine ended the disease’s spread in the United States. Before ...

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CLAIM: Polio stopped spreading when the pesticide DDT stopped being used, not when vaccines for the virus were introduced. THE FACTS: Polio and its side effects, including paralysis, have been widely ...

A half-century after DDT killed eagles, poisoned fish, and despoiled the landscape, the Zika virus emergency has prompted calls to bring back the pesticide. Conservative groups such as the National ...

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DDT being declared a carcinogenic risk to humans was a scientific anomaly, drawn entirely from high-dose animal studies. Dr. Don Roberts, Professor Emeritus of Tropical Public Health at the Uniformed ...