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Review
. 2000 Dec 2;321(7273):1403-5.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7273.1403.

Ethical debate: doctoring malaria, badly: the global campaign to ban DDT

A Attaran  1 , R Maharaj
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Ethical debate: doctoring malaria, badly: the global campaign to ban DDT

A Attaran et al. BMJ. .
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Alternatives to DDT can be more than twice as expensive
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