PolitiFact - DDT ban didn’t stop U.S. polio epidemic, vaccines did

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Polio is caused by the poliovirus, not DDT pesticide, and a vaccine ended the disease’s spread in the United States.

"Polio stopped when they stopped dousing the population with DDT not some injection," reads the text on a Jan. 22 Instagram post, above three black-and-white images of something unidentifiable being sprayed on and around people.

 

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