"WHO may allow more DDT?"
"I don't know!"
(BOTH) THIRD BASE!
Posted on 09/14/2006 3:12:37 PM PDT by SmithL
The World Health Organization is poised to promote broader use of the controversial pesticide DDT in the battle against malaria.
Long banned in the United States because of environmental damage, DDT is used legally in a few impoverished countries to kill malaria-bearing mosquitoes. It's no longer sprayed outdoors, but indoors — to coat the inside walls of mud huts or other dwellings where mosquitoes lurk. The aim is to protect sleeping families from bites at night.
There has been little progress in recent years in preventing malaria, which sickens up to half a billion people annually and kills more than 1 million, mostly young children and mostly in Africa.
Now the WHO is strengthening its malaria-fighting campaign, to push more strongly for indoor spraying with a number of insecticides_ including DDT as a safe, effective and cheap option for countries to choose, say officials familiar with the announcement, to be made Friday in Washington.
"It's a big change," said biologist Amir Attaran of Canada's University of Ottawa, who has long pushed for the guidelines and described a recent draft. "There has been a lot of resistance to using insecticides to control malaria, and one insecticide especially. As of tomorrow, that will have to be reevaluated by a lot of people."
The WHO will say that "indoor residual spraying, including with DDT, has been underutilized, which has hampered international efforts to effectively combat malaria in Africa," said a Bush administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity in advance of the official announcement.
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Wasn't that already proven to be BS?
Yes
How many have died in the meantime?
About 10 million people too late. Nice population management by the WHO.
Nonetheless this will infuriate the PC enviro-crowd.........Teehee.
Time to put people first.
"WHO may allow more DDT?"
"I don't know!"
(BOTH) THIRD BASE!
~30-40 million....needlessly.
A lot more than that:
True, however manufacturers of DDT and other effective pesticides were nailed in post production by the EPA, Superfund, other agencies and law suits over perceived or otherwise poor environmental practices. I would personally doubt any company would want to make it again. Now a company in a country that has little or no environmental responsibility could make a reasonable profit..BTW, They could also make nerve agents as a by-product.
Yeesh. I knew it was more than 10 million, but without a cite I didn't want to exaggerate. So I guess WHO is on par with Stalin and Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge combined. Nice.
Hey, 40 million dead dark people later..., what the heck, the big, healthy, white Bhwana liberal is going to change his mind about what 'little people' can do. Naturally, if they abuse this trust, it will be taken away from 'our little friends.'
NGO Liberal Out.
Too many!
A lot more than that:
Wouldn't we just file that under environmentalist collateral damage? /s
Has anyone thought of importing a buttload of bats to take down the mosquitoes? Wouldn't get rid of them but it would help.
It's no coincidence that the DDT ban is pushed by the same types of folks who think there should be people on the planet.
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