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New Insect Repellent Graphic Will Aid Consumers

By Clare Condon Aug 21, 2014 Chemicals

Updated: Jun 15, 2018

New Insect Repellent Graphic Will Aid Consumers Using insect repellents to protect against the increasing threat of insect-borne diseases may become as common as using sunscreen to protect against skin cancer. At least that is the hope of the EPA and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in their joint effort to encourage the […]

CDC and EPA Combine Forces Against Insect-Borne Diseases

By Clare Condon Aug 20, 2014 Chemicals

Updated: Aug 22, 2017

CDC and EPA Combine Forces Against Insect-Borne Diseases In the United States, mosquito bites used to be more annoying than anything else, requiring old-fashioned remedies and maybe a bandage to ward off infection. That all changed in 1999, when the CDC revealed that mosquito-borne West Nile virus was detected in the United States, a disease […]