Boys with urogenital birth defects are 33 percent more common in villages sprayed with DDT

Monday, October 26, 2009 - 04:28 in Health & Medicine

Women who lived in villages sprayed with DDT to reduce malaria gave birth to 33 per cent more baby boys with urogenital birth defects (UGBD) between 2004 and 2006 than women in unsprayed villages, according to research published online by the UK-based urology journal BJUI...

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