Plague controlled in Haifa by the use of DDT alone
- 1 March 1948
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- Vol. 41 (5) , 647-656
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0035-9203(48)90538-0
Abstract
An intensive campaign against the rat flea through the use of DDT[long dash]both as a spray and as a dusting powder[long dash]enabled the authorities to suppress an epidemic of plague with dramatic suddenness. Streptomycin and sulfadiazine therapy gave a high percent of cures among those cases that did develop.Keywords
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