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Although glorified for his extermination of
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Aziz and his team divided the entire island up into 556 blocks, according to a grid plan. Each block could be covered by one man over a period of 12 days. The campaign began on the Karpas
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established the connection between the disease and the anopheles mosquito that it became possible to address the problem of how the disease could be brought under control.
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in 1909. Now presumed extinct on the island and potentially an endemic species, the extermination of the species was attributed to Aziz's DDT campaign.
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