DTT and Malaria
South Africa illustrates these limitations in practice. Facing pressure from environmentalists, the national malaria control programme abandoned DDT in favour of more expensive pyrethroid insecticides in 1996. Within three years, pyrethroid resistant A funestus mosquitoes invaded KwaZulu-Natal province, where they had not been seen since DDT spraying began in the 1940s. Malaria cases then promptly soared, from just 4117 cases in 1995 to 27 238 cases in 1999 (or possibly 120 000 cases, judging by pharmacy records). Other provinces experienced similar catastrophes, and South Africa was forced to return to DDT spraying this year. It had little alternative: no other insecticide, at any price, was known to be equally effective.
Clearly there was an effective de facto ban on the use of DDT. This ban was neither total nor totally effective but it was a ban nonetheless.
Monday, June 20, 2005
THE DDT HOAX HOAX
http://www.malaria.org/DDTpage.html
http://rwdb.blogspot.com/2005/06/ddt-hoax-hoax.html
“There is a silent tsunami under way all the time in rural Africa. Every month, as many children die of malaria in Africa as died in the tsunami – about 150,000 children dying every month.”
Dr. Jeffery Sachs, director of the U.N. Millennium Project, Columbia University Economist
http://www.freedomfromhunger.org/landing/ffhmalaria.php?origin=12
Over the last 5 years a significant body of scientific research has concluded that atmospheric carbon dioxide is not the climate criminal it is made out to be by self-proclaimed ‘environmentalist’ groups and opportunist politicians.
CO2 — Cause or Effect?
Below is a summary of this research evidence, with links to a review of each, demonstrating clearly that hysterical demands for carbon dioxide emissions reductions — together with the fuel duty hikes and climate change levy introduced supposedly to further these demands — are an environmentally pointless ‘King Canute’ exercise designed purely to restrict individual mobility, and exercise corporate energy control, through extortionate levels of taxation.
....an increase in carbon dioxide levels, the much hyped ‘cause’ of global warming, actually happens long after the warming has started, demonstrating clearly that it cannot possibly be the cause.
http://www.abd.org.uk/co2_cause_or_effect.htm
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