Feeding DDT and Alfalfa Sprayed with DDT to Calves

DDT residues in water, sediment, domestic and indigenous biota from a currently DDT-sprayed area.

DDT is used for indoor residual spraying (IRS) in Limpopo Province, northern South Africa to control malaria. Through IRS, DDT may reach the outdoor environment via dust and air and from possible spillages during application. In this area the local people consume domestic chickens, wild fish or birds. Fish from the river catchment and impoundments seem to be the major source of protein intake. ...

Behavioral response of Anopheles darlingi to DDT-sprayed house walls in Amazonia.

The behavioral response of Anopheles darlingi females to spraying of house walls with DDT was studied along the Ituxi River in Amazonas, Brazil, using a house sprayed with 2 g DDT per square meter of wall surface and an untreated house serving as a control. It was found that hardly any An. darlingi females entered, exited, or took blood meals inside the treated house after it was sprayed with D...

DDT Paradox

Hwang B-F, Lee YL, Jaakkola JJ. 2011. Air pollution and stillbirth: a population-based case–control study in Taiwan. Environ Health Perspect 119:1345–1349; http://dx.doi. org/10.1289/ehp.1003056 [Online 29 March 2011]. Strand L, Barnett A, Tong S. 2011. Methodological challenges when estimating the effects of season and seasonal exposures on birth outcomes. BMC Medical Research Methodology 11 (...

DDT and Malaria Prevention

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1697 www.drugdiscoverytoday.com Although early detection of pathology can greatly improve patient outcomes, there are relatively few good noninvasive molecular tools for diagnosis of early-stage disease, such as premalignant cancer [1,2], or for prognosis, such as identifying cardiac patients at higher risk of dying (e.g. the Framingham Heart Study), or of non-responsiveness to therapy [3]. The...