Jan 25, 2023 · CLAIM: Polio stopped spreading when the pesticide DDT stopped being used, not when vaccines for the virus were introduced. AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. Polio vaccines are …

Dec 20, 2024 · Polio, a debilitating and life-threatening disease caused by a virus, has been largely eradicated in many parts of the world as a result of vaccination programs. Social media …

Jan 26, 2023 · Polio, a paralytic disease caused by a virus, has been eliminated in the U.S. — and nearly wiped out globally — thanks to vaccines. But social media posts are reviving old, …

Apr 14, 2022 · But the forgotten story of how Americans once resorted to spraying a now-banned pesticide, DDT, to combat polio is a reminder of how desperation can cloud judgment — and …

Feb 1, 2023 · However, DDT, a compound used as an insecticide that was singled out in the post, is not linked to polio, let alone paralysis, according to a Centers for Disease Control and …

Apr 14, 2022 · In the 1940’s, at the end of WW2, a new pesticide called DDT began being used by nearly everyone and polio became much worse. Unlike lead arsenate which was sprayed …

Jan 23, 2023 · Polio is caused by the poliovirus, not DDT pesticide, and a vaccine ended the disease’s spread in the United States. Before the polio vaccine was available, some …

Oct 12, 2014 · The director of the city’s Department of Health, H.L. Crittenden, ordered the spraying of DDT along every one of over a thousand streets in May, 1946 in an ill-fated …

Between the end of World War II and the early 1950s, researchers, municipal officials, and individuals from Georgia to California employed DDT to stop polio by killing flies, a suspected …

Mar 31, 2021 · In the 1950s, paralysis said to be caused by a polio virus hit 10,000 people a year. West notes that the reduction in polio cases predates widespread polio vaccination, and …