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EPA’s Environmental Policy Makes Combating Zika, Malaria and Dengue Fever Nearly Impossible
Cybercast News Service ^ | February 16, 2016 | 12:43 PM EST | James Wanliss

Posted on 02/16/2016 12:40:05 PM PST by Olog-hai

The Zika virus ravaging South America causes horrific problems including birth defects and creeping paralysis. And now it has made its way to 16 US states. There is no vaccine.

With the Zika virus declared an international public health emergency a few weeks ago by the World Health Organization, it seems a good time to remind people of another mosquito borne disease with even more horrible effects--malaria. [...]

You see, malaria was eliminated in the West and North because of the invention, and use, of the miracle pesticide DDT. DDT could stop Zika, just as it stopped malaria. For that matter, it could also stop mosquito-borne dengue fever in Hawaii, which just declared a state of emergency due to the largest outbreak since the 1940s.

Environmental policy makes that not just unlikely, but impossible.

Soon after the first Earth Day in 1970, as eco-hysteria drove public policy, DDT was banned in the United States. ...

(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: ddt; denguefever; earthday; epa; leninsbearthday; liberalagenda; malaria; zikavirus

1 posted on 02/16/2016 12:40:05 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

The victims of the resurgence of malaria are mostly black. To the Democrats (a party that pushes abortion, which disproportionately kills blacks) this is a feature, not a bug.


2 posted on 02/16/2016 12:46:57 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Olog-hai

“You see, malaria was eliminated in the West and North because of the invention, and use, of the miracle pesticide DDT. DDT”

And draining standing water (i.e. swamps and stagnant ponds/lakes), try doing that on your on land and watch the Feds step in with a heavy fine (or worse).


3 posted on 02/16/2016 12:47:27 PM PST by 2001convSVT (Going Galt as fast as I can.)
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To: Olog-hai

Give DDT a chance, maybe it will also kill those nasty ticks.


4 posted on 02/16/2016 12:48:57 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: 1Old Pro

And bed bugs, of course.


5 posted on 02/16/2016 12:54:23 PM PST by far sider
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To: 1Old Pro

Eco warriors are terrorists. They seek the destruction of human populations.
Banning DDT, a completely harmless compound, guarantees the spread of insect born disease.
A 50’s Appalachia ballad says it all. “Ain’t no flies on Jesus ‘cause He’s sprayed with DDT.” DDT was used as a miracle cure for internal parasites for animals and children. A teaspoon of the chemical killed worms and other internal parasites without harming the patient.
Against the advice of the judge who investigated the case against DDT the Dept of Ag under LBJ outlawed DDT as a sop to environmentalists. Millions of children have needlessly died from disease since that black day.


6 posted on 02/16/2016 12:59:57 PM PST by Louis Foxwell (Stop Islam and save the world.)
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To: Olog-hai

Anyone else notice that the US and even certain states have far stricter laws about flowers and pets coming in with disease than PEOPLE?

Seems to me that that would make a devastating report on ‘RAT policy.


7 posted on 02/16/2016 1:03:57 PM PST by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (Go Egypt on 0bama)
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To: Olog-hai

Pinheads.


8 posted on 02/16/2016 1:05:17 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Louis Foxwell

Yes. Truth.


9 posted on 02/16/2016 1:06:42 PM PST by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists Call 'em what you will, they all have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: Olog-hai; All

I blame Rachel Carson.

Her lies are at the root of all this idiocy.


10 posted on 02/16/2016 1:11:29 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: Olog-hai
Jimmie Vaughn - Dengue Woman Blues
11 posted on 02/16/2016 1:25:06 PM PST by Boogieman
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EPA’s Environmental Policy Makes Combating Zika, Malaria and Dengue Fever Nearly Impossible

DDT is the answer, but first we must toss out our foolish assumptions.

12 posted on 02/16/2016 1:25:12 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Louis Foxwell
Against the advice of the judge who investigated the case against DDT the Dept of Ag under LBJ outlawed DDT as a sop to environmentalists.

My understanding was that it was under Nixon. It was banned in 1972. But you are right, there was no legitimate reason to ban it. It was banned simply because Nixon was trying to be nice to left wing wacko-kooks.

It didn't work. Also Millions of people died as a result.

13 posted on 02/16/2016 1:30:58 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Boogieman

That is wonderful. I should have been playing that a couple of summers ago.

Well, I’ve survived malaria and I’ve survived dengue. Not really sure I want to take on zika, too.


14 posted on 02/16/2016 1:32:32 PM PST by Jemian
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To: Olog-hai

When I was a kid at the shore many decades ago, we’d walk thru clouds of DDT from the fogger trucks. Rachael C’s book galvanized the public to accept the ban and as a result in Africa millions died.


15 posted on 02/16/2016 1:38:37 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: DiogenesLamp

You are correct. DDT was banned by the newly created EPA under Nixon, one more illustration of the corruption of his administration. That liberals went after him tooth and tong speaks to the utter insanity of the Democrat party. He was the progenitor of the Uniparty.


16 posted on 02/17/2016 5:21:22 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (Stop Islam and save the world.)
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