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With the possibility of a serious infantile paralysis epidemic, health authorities of the city of San Antonio, Texas attack the germ carriers throughout the city. With the war-discovered DDT in special sprayers, sections of the city are blanketed with the insecticide in the fight to stop the spread of the dread poliomyelitis.

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Every suspected spot is sprayed.

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Even the streams are disinfected, and in the parks and public places, children are forbidden to gather.

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Tons of DDT are used in this fight against the dread disease, whose principal target is the young. Again, war has contributed one of its discoveries to save life.

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