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Prevention or Poisoning? Dilemmas in Urban Rat Control
Effective strategies for rat control based on ecology were invented in Baltimore in the 1940s. The program, however, did not last.
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Entomology and Empire: Settler Colonial Science and the Campaign for Hawaiian Annexation
Pest control was a political act in late-nineteenth-century Hawaiʻi, helping sugarcane planters pursue annexation to the United States.
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Marshlands, Sanitation Policies, and Epidemic Fevers in Late-Eighteenth-Century Barcelona (1783–1786)
A tertian fever epidemic occurred in Barcelona from 1783 to 1786 and affected approximately one million people.