# San Antonio Sprays DDT to Fight Threat of Polio Epidemic

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2106900095832633720
- Source account: [@AnaMar246724](https://x.com/AnaMar246724)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 0:58
- Published: 2026-10-05
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2ALV1eQCsJ31/en/san-antonio-sprays-ddt-to-fight-threat-of-polio-epidemic

## Transcript

[0:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2ALV1eQCsJ31/en/san-antonio-sprays-ddt-to-fight-threat-of-polio-epidemic?t=5) 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.

[0:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2ALV1eQCsJ31/en/san-antonio-sprays-ddt-to-fight-threat-of-polio-epidemic?t=24) Every suspected spot is sprayed.

[0:34](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2ALV1eQCsJ31/en/san-antonio-sprays-ddt-to-fight-threat-of-polio-epidemic?t=34) Even the streams are disinfected, and in the parks and public places, children are forbidden to gather.

[0:47](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2ALV1eQCsJ31/en/san-antonio-sprays-ddt-to-fight-threat-of-polio-epidemic?t=47) 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.