Island disease hits 50,000 people

BBC ^ | 2/2/06 | n/a

[Semper Paratus]

DDT might have helped.

[MeanWestTexan]

D. D. T.

Millions have died because of its un-earned bad name.

[fishtank]

[Frank_2001]

Thanks, Rachel!/s

[MadeInAmerica]

Yeah, well....the tree huggers are happy it's no longer used.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, hundreds of thousands of people are crippled and die every year to this little insect.

[American Quilter]

You and Semper Paratus beat me to it. The unnecessary deaths of millions of people (mostly in Africa) since DDT was banned is directly attributable to the Kumbayah wing of the Democrat party. Do they feel bad? Nope. They're too busy congratulating each other to notice all the people who died as a result of their propaganda war against a pesticide that has not caused one documented human death.

[Onelifetogive]

Island disease hits 50,000 people

Amazing. What are the odds that it would be a round number like that. Incredible...

[Steveone]

Agreed !!and do not forget Malaria

[Onelifetogive]

Chikungunya fever is named after a Swahili word meaning "that which bends up"

Little known fact - that's the same as the derivation for the word "Clinton".

[Cobra64]

Bingo! When was it outlawed? I think it was when I was a kid 50 years ago.

[sockmonkey]

DDT might have helped.

I've often wondered why there isn't someone somewhere making black market DDT. I'd want to buy some.

I miss DDT, chlordane, and mirex. Good Lord, have they gotten rid of lindane, too?

[FormerLib]

At what point will Rachel Carson receive the credit for all of the deaths that she's caused?

[WV Mountain Mama]

Since when has the left cared about dead babies, children, etc? The campaign against DDT is a travesty.

[fishtank]

She'll be up there with Hitler, Stalin and Mao pretty soon...

[Integrityrocks]

Catch a few, put them in a jar and send them to the Iranian and N. Korean dictators.

[FormerLib]

I'm going to forward this one over to JunkScience.com

[starfish923]

When ARMACO (Saudi Arabian-American Oil Company) first went into the eastern province, in 1932, where so much oil is, they discovered that 100% of the Saudis had malaria in some form.

They sprayed and sprayed with stuff you can't get today. They killed all the mosquitos and effectively eliminated all malaria.

By 2000, malaria had re-appeared in the Kingdom because malaria-infected east Africans went to work for Saudi ARAMCO and re-infected the healthy Saudi mosquitoes.
No biggie. Spraying continues and malaria is curable. Saudis are healthy malaria-free, for the most part. Don't ask about letting in sick/healthy workers....I know, I know. That, apparently can't happen.

Reunion could be healthier if the local government would spray as assiduously as needed....and continued the war on this mosquito.
I suppose the French will have to pony up the Euros for everything....I hold out no hope for the locals. They are doomed without external help.

[Slicksadick]

Chikungunya fever is named after a Swahili word meaning "that which bends up"

I thought it was namefd after Slick.

[dljordan]

"They're too busy congratulating each other to notice all the people who died as a result of their propaganda war against a pesticide that has not caused one documented human death."

They WANT people to die because Gaia is overcrowded. In their dream utopia all the "unnecessary eaters" would be dead leaving only the enlightened ones living in perfect harmony.