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| Fighting Malaria Without DDT |
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Under the terms of the North American Free Trade Agreement, Mexico was committed to eliminating DDT use by 2002. The country’s malaria-control efforts, however, depended on this chemical. Researchers set about to develop alternate strategies by addressing factors that affect malaria’s spread: humans, mosquitoes, and the local environment in which the parasite persists. As a result of this integrated approach, Mexico was able to abandon DDT ahead of schedule.
Open file : Ecohealth_Casestudy_09_e.pdf
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