[DakotaGator]

Concur on HIV! And the DDT big lie is guaranteed to set me off like a 4th of July rocket!!

I am old enough to have the same childhood DDT-fog experience as you and your wife. It was a good time to be a child.

Now these very same parks I used to play in are unusable. They have been taken over by mosquitoes. And disease is spreading. Oh, but the politicians spend serious tax dollars on ineffective chemicals.

Thank you stupid voters and gutless politicians (another blood-sucking creature).

[Myrddin]

West Nile virus was unknown in the U.S. when I moved to Idaho in Dec 2000. We now lose about 500 horses and quite a few humans in Idaho each year. The hardest hit areas are about 25 miles north of Pocatello and about 30 miles west.

All the foo foo about providing "mosquito nets" to combat malaria in 3rd world countries would be totally unnecessary if DDT was in use again. It's going to bite us in the butt with food production too.