You need to do a little more research. And possibly involve non-ninny, objective DDT supporters in your reading material.
Broad application results in resistance to DDT (after killing off for REALLY cheap) but it also results in mosquitos who are resistant AVOIDING sprayed areas.
You make the call. A 'scary' application of DDT that harms nothing except mosquitos, or politically correct application of less-than effective, more expensive pesticides that result in more people dying.
For some reason, I think you'd favor the 'more people dying' approach. Does that make you feel better, or just more superior that you fall for junk science???
Where do you get that information from?
For some reason, I think you'd favor the 'more people dying' approach. Does that make you feel better, or just more superior that you fall for junk science???
If you'd read all that I wrote, I noted that I think the aid programs should fund indooor and wall spraying programs, and apparently they aren't doing so due to environmental concerns. Does that sound like I favor more people dying, or do you just like making unsupported accusations?
"The United States all but eradicated malaria in the 1950s with drugs and the pesticide DDT. But in tropical Africa, where the parasite is widespread and mosquitoes can breed in a cow's footprint, malaria remains entrenched. The death rate has increased over the last few decades as the parasite became resistant to once highly effective drugs. DDT, banned in the U.S. for harming the environment, is still used in limited circumstances as a house spray, but it is not the miracle worker some suggest it could be if only Western aid groups would get behind it."
"Today's weapon of choice in the war on malaria is a net treated with a biodegradable pyrethroid insecticide. The net works not so much because it forms a foolproof barrier against mosquitoes — it doesn't — but because the insecticide kills the bugs. The most astounding results come when treated nets multiply across a village. When net use reaches a tipping point of about 60% of households, they kill enough mosquitoes that the protective benefits extend even to the households without nets. The Roll Back Malaria Partnership, an alliance of aid agencies and African nations that aims to halve malaria deaths by 2010, set a goal of getting 60% of pregnant women and young children to sleep under insecticide-treated nets."
The rest of the article is an interesting read, describing a number of pertinent issues for this topic.