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Reports emerge of mosquitos growing tolerant to dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane in Africa.

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Anti-malaria campaigns in Africa begin to report dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) resistance. The result is an even more intense DDT-bombing of mosquito communities in the attempt to eradicate malaria before mosquito resistance grows to be too large.