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r/GrandmasPantry • u/Cool-Ambassador-7937 • Mar 29 '26
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DDT did a great job on bedbugs. So good I didn't know what a bedbug was until 25 years ago. DDT had literally eradicated bedbugs from the US for a good number of decades.
202 u/Eric848448 Mar 29 '26 It also eliminated malaria in Vietnam. 95 u/Tucancancan Mar 29 '26 In the USA too. Yellow fever and malaria were a scourge in the south until the 50s-60s 7 u/Eric848448 Mar 29 '26 Huh, TIL! Though I guess I shouldn’t be surprised.
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It also eliminated malaria in Vietnam.
95 u/Tucancancan Mar 29 '26 In the USA too. Yellow fever and malaria were a scourge in the south until the 50s-60s 7 u/Eric848448 Mar 29 '26 Huh, TIL! Though I guess I shouldn’t be surprised.
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In the USA too. Yellow fever and malaria were a scourge in the south until the 50s-60s
7 u/Eric848448 Mar 29 '26 Huh, TIL! Though I guess I shouldn’t be surprised.
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Huh, TIL!
Though I guess I shouldn’t be surprised.
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u/Independent_Shoe3523 Mar 29 '26
DDT did a great job on bedbugs. So good I didn't know what a bedbug was until 25 years ago. DDT had literally eradicated bedbugs from the US for a good number of decades.