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Article: Oil of Lemon Eucalyptus as an Insect Repellent.
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- Alternative Medicine Alert
- Article date:
- August 1, 2005
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Oil of Lemon Eucalyptusas an Insect Repellent
By Alexandra Connelly Frost, PhD
Dr. Frost is an Epidemiologist at the R. Stuart Dickson Institute for Health Studies, Carolinas HealthCare System, Charlotte, NC; she reports no consultant, stockholder, speakers bureau, research, or other financial relationships with companies having ties to this field of study.
Before synthetic repellents were developed in 1929, people routinely used natural compounds to protect against insect bites. During World War II, however, the United States government began testing more than 20,000 mosquito repellents to protect troops traveling to tropical areas. As a ...