Posted on 05/23/2016 9:56:58 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The spread of Zika is the price being paid for a massive policy failure on mosquito control, says World Health Organization leader Margaret Chan.
Speaking at the agency's annual World Health Assembly, Dr Chan said experts had "dropped the ball" in the 1970s with regards to getting a handle on disease-carrying insects.
More than 60 countries and territories now have continuing Zika transmission.
Most recently, the infection, spread by mosquito bites, reached Africa.
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Eradication campaigns were successful in the Americas with 18 countries getting rid of the insect by 1962.
But insecticide resistance plus a lack of political will led to the Aedes aegypti mosquito rebounding.
"With no vaccines and no reliable and widely available diagnostic tests, to protect women of childbearing age, all we can offer is advice.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Zika is huge hype.
Budget cycles coming to ends. Need something to spend on.
DDT works and is not harmful to the environment.
Rachel Carson was NOT a scientist or biologist. She was a sensationalist with globalist money behind her to push the one-world agenda, which requires elimination of large swathes of the earth’s population.
We used to have an excellent product that controlled mosquitoes.
It was banned by western environmental nazis and progressives who wanted to feel good about themselves and really didn’t care how many third world babies died.
Didn’t Do That (DDT)
DDT spray is the answer.
Yep, DDT is the answer. Millions of dead Africans since the ban, and the left hands out mosquito tents as the answer. Another example of leftism=death.
It’s a failure nationally as well as locally.
Here in SE MA there is EEE carrying skeeters. Nobody cares except the survivors of those who have died from it.
There’s plenty of stuf besides DDT that will them. It’s just that nobody cares. Skeeters serve no useful purpose. Kill ‘em all.
Spoken in my best Jayne voice.
Carson scared the bejeebies out of a whole generation, but then it was the 60’s, and that was the period where the public opening of the Leftist agenda was introduced.
Heretofore, it was more insidious and more easily ignored by the sleepy and aspiring middle class, who could have and should have stopped it cold, given they were less than two decades from WW II.
Well, we are awake now.
Need more DDT....
Yep.
And malaria is a bigger problem than Zika ever has been or will be.
What was it, they didn’t want bird eggs to get soft?
Mosquito control is not a failure. It is purposeful. The Malthusians that run the world want as many people to get malaria as possible to reduce the population to “sustainable levels”. Whatever that means.
“What was it, they didn’t want bird eggs to get soft?”
Not just birds. It softened the eggs of (Gasp!) Bald Eagles!!!!
The whole thing was BS. It has long been known that it was BS, yet still no reintroduction of a known successful life saving chemical that is likely very inexpensive to produce. As in most cases, let’s follow the money. Is it globalists wishing to exterminate the third world, or isn’t there enough money to be made by making DDT? More money in mosquito nets? It continues to be BS.
Translation: the DDT ban led to this.
Eradication campaigns were successful in the Americas with 18 countries getting rid of the insect by 1962.By the mid-1960s, they'd surged back.
Bring back DDT.
If you can only deploy non-toxic pesticides, then you will never get rid of the problem.
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