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DDT's rise and fall as disease fighter in history
In 1948 Paul Muller won the Nobel for DDT work, hailed as a breakthrough against malaria and typhus. By the 1960s officials warned of ecological harm as DDT spread through ecosystems, spurring bans and debates over substitutes while WHO warned against abandoning proven disease control.
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