Show When were cats parachuted into Borneo?Operation Cat Drop is the name given to the delivery of some 14,000 cats by the United Kingdom's Royal Air Force to the remote village of Sarawak, in the British colony of Borneo in 1960.
Why were cats parachuted into a village in Borneo?The cats started to die, the rats flourished, and the people were threatened by outbreaks of two new serious diseases carried by the rats, sylvatic plague and typhus. To cope with these problems, which it had itself created, the World Health Organization had to parachute live cats into Borneo.
Who sent DDT to Borneo?In the 1950s, the World Health Organization sent supplies of DDT to Borneo to fight mosquitoes that spread malaria among the people.
What chain of events happened after the wasps were killed?What did this have to do with the DDT? The DDT had killed the wasps that ate the thatch-eating caterpillars. Without the wasps around, the caterpillars multiplied and devoured the thatch roofs. Meanwhile, the DDT also landed on Borneo's cockroaches.
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