[secretagent]

If the U.S. wants to help people in tsunami-hit countries like Sri Lanka and Indonesia - not to mention other poor countries in Africa - there's one step that would cost us nothing and would save hundreds of thousands of lives.

It would be to allow DDT in malaria-ravaged countries.

How does the US stop Sri Lanka and other countries from spraying DDT?

[Stoat]

How does the US stop Sri Lanka and other countries from spraying DDT?
 

Do these countries even have stockpiles of DDT, or even the means by which to disperse it on such a massive scale?  Once again, only the US has the means to get such a meaningful thing done.  Sadly, I believe that it will once again be thwarted due entirely to irrelevant political reasons rather than any sound scientific ones.