Possibly Sardinia: The eradication of malaria helped Sardinia improve its public health programs and also paved the way for socio-economic development. But at

Possibly Sardinia: The eradication of malaria helped Sardinia improve its public health programs and also paved the way for socio-economic development. But at a huge environmental cost that is incalculable. Some farmers accused the DTT of killing their livestock, bees and also fish. https://totalsardinia.com/malaria/ https://totalsardinia.com/malaria/ Sheepherders, fish farmers, and beekeepers blamed their dead sheep, dead fish, and dead bees on DDT spraying. https://www.wanderingitaly.com/blog/article/785/sardinia-and-the-history-of-malaria https://www.wanderingitaly.com/blog/article/785/sardinia-and... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2819864/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2819864/ Edit: Odds are good I read about it originally in Reader's Digest in the late 1970s or early 1980s if you want to find a dead tree copy at a library.