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Ep 117 Bedbugs: Bug-bitten and bedeviled

This Podcast Will Kill You

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The Rise and Fall of Bed Bugs

DDT was first synthesized in 1874 but mostly forgotten about for like 65 years or so. In 1939 when it was rediscovered by a Swiss chemist named Paul Mueller, DDT was found to be incredibly effective. By the 1960s, infestations in most industrialized countries were rare. And I would bet that if you plotted like the number of research articles about bed bugs from the early 1900s to today, you'd see a big boom up to the 1940s and then a crash in the 1950s, 1960s. And then and then yeah. And then they come back up.

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