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Disease Transmission by Insects: Its Discovery and 90 Years of Effort to Prevent It

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Disease Transmission by Insects: Its Discovery and 90 Years of Effort to Prevent It - Busvine, James
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About 100 years ago, it was dicovered that insects transmit grave, mainly tropical diseases - very much to the astonishment of the physicians of that time, who saw this as a new, possibly easy, way of eradicating the diseases by exterminating the vectors. For some years, DDT and other then new insecticides achieved great improvements, but subsequently serious setbacks emerged: insecticide-resistance and anxiety about toxicity to man and animals. In the past twenty years, serious efforts have been made tofind alternatives, ...

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Disease Transmission by Insects: Its Discovery and 90 Years of Effort to Prevent It 1993, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

ISBN-13: 9783540554578

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