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. 2004 Mar-Apr;119(2):206–215. doi: 10.1177/003335490411900214

Lessons of history? Anti-malaria strategies of the International Health Board and the Rockefeller Foundation from the 1920s to the era of DDT.

Darwin H Stapleton 1
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