Posted on 08/06/2016 4:29:09 AM PDT by VitacoreVision
Jane Orient, M.D., serves as the Executive Director of the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS). This Arizona-based organization attracts conservative-thinking doctors and frequently finds itself in disagreement with the well-known American Medical Association.
Dr. Orient has issued a call to start using DDT in the fight against the Zika virus. Her stand places her in marked contrast to an assortment of leftist environmentalists and their political allies. To them, DDT is harmful. But examination of the claims that DDT adversely affects people, plant life, and fish shows the worries to be unreasonable if not completely false.
Created in 1874 by a German chemist, dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane wasn’t found to be an effective insecticide until 1939 when Swiss chemist Paul Müller started publicizing its usefulness as an eradicator of mosquitoes and various vermin. Müller justifiably won the 1948 Nobel Prize “for his discovery of the high efficiency of DDT as a contact poison against several anthropods.”
Soon after the acknowledgement of Müller’s work, use of DDT became widespread. Typhus that had ravaged U.S. forces during World War II was largely eliminated. In the United States, sickness and death caused by malaria shrank from 15,000 cases in 1947 to compete eradication by 1951. The use of DDT in Africa and elsewhere proved sensationally effective against malaria and other mosquito borne diseases. The use of DDT, says Dr. Orient, probably saved 500,000,000 lives without killing anyone.”
In 1962, however, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring gave birth to a campaign against DDT that has led to the substance being banned for use in the United States and much of the world. Carson predicted that vegetation would disappear, fish would no longer be found in rivers and streams, birds would no longer be found, and people would face grave dangers. DDT became Enemy Number One and its use became illegal in 1972 via an EPA mandate. Soon, the United Nations joined the U.S. in condemning DDT and using it ceased in many parts of the world.
In Florida today, frantic efforts to eradicate the Zika virus have dominated our nation’s print and electronic media. Numerous athletes have declined to participate in the Olympic Games over fear of mosquito bites transmitting the Zika virus and more. To combat the threat, medical authorities are turning to everything but DDT.
“If we do nothing,” says Dr. Orient, “a lot of people will get Zika [and] some will get Guillain Barre Syndrome which causes a potentially fatal paralysis.” Labeling as a “step above nothing” the current strategy of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) — don’t get pregnant, wear long sleeve clothing, and apply a mosquito repellent — she laments the refusal to employ DDT to deal with the problem. Everything offered by the CDC and others isn’t working very well according to the AAPS leader. What would work? With a willingness to stick her neck out, Dr. Orient says it may be “the height of political incorrectness to suggest trying DDT.” But that’s what she believes would be effective.
Why did the ban on DDT develop and become virtually mandatory? Population control seems to be the hidden goal of some. In the 1960s, Environmental Defense Fund leader Dr. Charles Wurster claimed there were already too many people on earth. He proposed banning DDT “as a way to get rid of them.” In his syndicated column, Walter Williams noted that Malthusian Club founder Alexander King had written in 1990: “So my chief quarrel with DDT, in hindsight, is that it has greatly added to the population problem.” In November 1991, the Paris-based UNESCO Courier published the proposal of famed oceanographer Jacques Cousteau, who called for action to “eliminate 350,000 people per day” as the way to counter population growth. Others claiming to be environmentalists have issued similarly outrageous statements.
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.
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yes, the campaign against it was a lie. Will any national scientists or congressmen slimes have any spines?
Never let a crisis go to waste.
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.
Next question?
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
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.
A pandemic that doesn't exist because it is based on a lie
is eliminated by
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.
Is there any reason to believe that DDT would be more effective than what they are using now?
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.
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!
What and sell out their hero, Rachel Carson.
There WILL be a smile on my face in the casket.
Malaria justifies it, if you aren’t a Progressive bent on population reduction.
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.
It is still produced isn’t it? For export?
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.
Malaria didn’t.
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.
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