When DDT Was the Miracle Cure
January 15, 2021
BETWEEN 1946 and 1962, more than a billion tons of DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane) was sprayed throughout the U.S. and sometimes directly applied to children. The chemical was believed to prevent the spread of polio and typhus. Read more at The Daily Mail.
According to authors Torsten Engelbrecht and Claus Köhnlein in their book Virus Mania, DDT probably caused the very paralysis it was believed to prevent. The chemical is now known to be highly toxic to humans and animals. It was finally banned by the government in 1972.
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