I believe that number of dead Africans is closer to 100 million.
A person I used to work with in the pest control industry told me that DDT was still being manufactured in Venezuela. If true, how ironic is it that the best, most effective pesticide for mosquitoes ever invented is free to be used in Hugo Chavez’s socialist state, but not in the United States!
Many (mosquitoes) are resistant or would quickly become resistant again.