This interesting because my mother worked in that campaign to get DDT banned. She collected signatures and did other work.
We lived in one of those neighborhoods where they used to spray once a week and all the kids would get on their bikes and ride behind the spray truck. Now, a lot of the people who grew up in that neighborhood seem to be dying of cancers, but I don’t think that most of the people that died were the ones riding behind the truck, but I can’t be sure.
Three died of brain tumors before they were 21, three breast cancers, one pancreatic and two I’m not sure about. ....and that’s just the ones that I know about. Does anyone know if that is an abnormal rate of cancer?
the lab-reared, genetically modified insects, dengue fever focus over malaria as one type of mosquito bites during the day so nets not a partial solution.
There was a lot of agricultural spraying where I grew up. There is also a high level of radium in the water. I haven’t heard of an increase in cancers but many have fertility problems. Don’t know if there’s a link but I’ve always thought there might be.