DDT is still sprayed today, indoors, in Africa and Asia to control for mosquitos, including in India.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S254251962...

frontfor 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

To clarify, it's not "Africa and Asia". Only India, South Africa, and Zimbabwe are still using DDT actively.

	▲	throwaway290 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		The paper says a bunch of countries don't use DDT for malaria control but it doesn't say if they still use DDT in agriculture. They used to use it for pest control growing coffee

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user_7832 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

As an Indian... I had no idea. I've seen fumigation a lot right from childhood (kids used to run after the fumigation man to inhale that fog), with that sweetish smell it had. Of course it's possible it was pyrethroids... not like they don't cause allergic reactions either haha welp