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The History Of DDT

First synthesized by German chemist Othmar Zeidler in 1874, DDT was further developed and used in the 20th and 21st centuries:

SOURCE: U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine | GRAPHIC: The Washington Post - October 8, 2007

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