AbstractThe last 40 years has seen significant evolution of the synthetic pyrethroids from their relatively restricted usage in domestic fly and mosquito control to their adoption in all major areas of public health pest control. The use of the synthetic pyrethroids in national and international control campaigns and in village level self‐help pest‐control schemes for major disease vectors such as mosquitoes, tsetse and blackfly is examined. Their successful introduction into the urban public health sector for control of cockroaches, fleas, bedbugs and lice, etc., is revie
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