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Zimbabwe plans to use the banned chemical DDT in its anti-malaria spraying programme. DDT has been shown to cause cancer, infant deaths, to poison animals, and to be very hard to eradicate from groundwater and the food chain. Environmentalists in Zimbabwe say the government has been forced to resort to the chemical because it can't afford better alternatives. But government spokespeople counter that the chemical is still used in South Africa and Swaziland.