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Does Zika Warrant Bringing Back DDT?
The New American ^ | 06 August 2016 | John F. McManus

Posted on 08/06/2016 4:29:09 AM PDT by VitacoreVision

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The existing ban on DDT should be terminated. Perhaps the current scare presented by the Zika virus will lead again to the use of this remarkable and safe substance. by John F. McManus
1 posted on 08/06/2016 4:29:10 AM PDT by VitacoreVision
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To: VitacoreVision

yes, the campaign against it was a lie. Will any national scientists or congressmen slimes have any spines?


2 posted on 08/06/2016 4:33:51 AM PDT by CincyRichieRich (Have Faith...If you have none, pray and ask Him for more.)
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Does Zika Warrant Bringing Back DDT?

Never let a crisis go to waste.

3 posted on 08/06/2016 4:34:10 AM PDT by HomerBohn (Liberals and Slinkys: Good for nothing but make you smile as you shove them down the stairs.)
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To: VitacoreVision

I remember as a boy living in base housing overseas. Dad brought home cases of the DDT in aerosol cans (that old OD color with NSNs, etc.).

Nightly in the summertime truck tankers with DDT and heavy duty foggers would cruise the base housing areas.

In the 70s coming from Okinawa on emergency leave in a C-141 they wouldn’t let us leave the plane and two airmen walked up and down the bay, a can of DDT in each hand spraying the cans until they were empty.

The stuff worked.


4 posted on 08/06/2016 4:34:10 AM PDT by Gaffer (Paint your face, gird yourself and stand with your backsides to the enemy.)
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To: VitacoreVision
YES! (It NEVER should have been banned in the first place because it's use around the world has saved MILLIONS OF LIVES!)

Next question?

5 posted on 08/06/2016 4:36:05 AM PDT by Jmouse007 (Lord God Almighty, deliver us from this evil in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, amen.)
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DDT is a better idea than what the FDA just approved: Mutant Mosquitoes!

The FDA just greenlit releasing mutant Zika-killing mosquitoes in Florida
http://fusion.net/story/333793/oxitec-zika-fighting-mosquitoes/

Freak of nature: FDA approves genetically engineered mosquitoes to combat Zika virus
https://www.rt.com/usa/354825-fda-genetically-engineered-mosquitoes-zika/

FDA Approves GMO Mosquito Test to Fight Zika
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/fda-gmo-mosquito-test-fight-zika/story?id=41143198


6 posted on 08/06/2016 4:37:31 AM PDT by VitacoreVision
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In use, DDT rapidly engenders resistance that requires higher doses. And DDT in the environment breaks down into endocrine disrupting compounds that cause urogenital and developmental abnormalities in animals and, presumably, also in humans.


7 posted on 08/06/2016 4:51:40 AM PDT by Rockingham
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Oh, the irony !

A pandemic that doesn't exist because it is based on a lie

is eliminated by

a chemical that was banned because of a lie !

8 posted on 08/06/2016 4:52:30 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof, but they're true ... and it pisses people off)
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To: VitacoreVision

YES!!!!!

My house is overrun by fleas. I have used everything in Lowe’s arsenal and they are still here. The house is dusted with Hot Shot flea and bedbug powder to the point where it looks like a scene from “Scareface.” “Say hello to my little friend! He’s a flea.”

I am working at properties in the woods where there are so many ticks one of my fellow workers picked off 57, by actual count. The warm winter is allowing them to proliferate like some horror movie monsters. (Don’t let them suck your blood after midnight.)

It disgusts me that not one insect poison works. Thank you, EPA.


9 posted on 08/06/2016 4:54:13 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (`)
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Is there any reason to believe that DDT would be more effective than what they are using now?


10 posted on 08/06/2016 4:56:50 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: VitacoreVision

There will be one person who is allergic to it and therefore no one will be allowed to use it withing 1000 miles of them.


11 posted on 08/06/2016 5:03:33 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Kill TWITTER !! Kill FACEBOOK !! Free MILO !!)
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Great post.
But the people need pandemics so congressmen and Clinton foundation can get payoffs from pharma from drugs we don’t need...how dare you point that out!


12 posted on 08/06/2016 5:07:31 AM PDT by CincyRichieRich (Have Faith...If you have none, pray and ask Him for more.)
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To: VitacoreVision

What and sell out their hero, Rachel Carson.


13 posted on 08/06/2016 5:07:49 AM PDT by jonsie
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To: CincyRichieRich
There's a certain delicious enjoyment to having an unstoppable disease (emphysema) and being old enough to not GAF !

There WILL be a smile on my face in the casket.

14 posted on 08/06/2016 5:11:19 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof, but they're true ... and it pisses people off)
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To: VitacoreVision

Malaria justifies it, if you aren’t a Progressive bent on population reduction.


15 posted on 08/06/2016 5:13:24 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (If we had some ham, we could have ham and eggs, if we had some eggs.)
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LOL! When I was a kid living in the Tampa Bay area while my dad was deployed to Korea, we used to ride behind the fogger trucks on our bikes. Say, you don’t think that may have caused................. Nah, I’m okay. And just how many deaths can we attribute to the eco wankers and ray-shell carson for their false claims? Big thanks to willy rucklehouse for arbitrarily getting it banned. Typical blood on the hands of libs. Settled science my butt.


16 posted on 08/06/2016 5:15:30 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: VitacoreVision

It is still produced isn’t it? For export?


17 posted on 08/06/2016 5:15:36 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Ask Bernie supporters two questions: Who is rich. Who decides. In the past, that meant who died.)
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To: Rockingham
Evidence, please. You certainly spout the eco-propaganda well, but I have seen no evidence to support either of these.

DDT was grossly over used (I am from S. Louisiana, and remember the government "bombing" campaign, dropping DDT-laced cornmeal from airplanes in an effort to stop the spread of fire ants (failed)), but it should be available for limited uses...the total ban is stupid in the extreme.

18 posted on 08/06/2016 5:19:20 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel and NRA Life Member)
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To: VitacoreVision

Malaria didn’t.


19 posted on 08/06/2016 5:20:58 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Gaffer

Growing up in the Panama Canal Zone in the late 60s/early 70s, I remember chasing those DDT trucks, running through the “fog” as thry drove past the palyground. Never had any health issues and all of my kids have turned out fine.


20 posted on 08/06/2016 5:29:18 AM PDT by canalabamian (Durka durka...Muhammad FUBAR!)
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