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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>>Yeah, but Malaria only affect those darker skinned people in distant lands, Zika is serious, it could affect the beltway...
Oh, that’s right. Their “love and tolerance” only applies to spending tax dollars.
Does Zika Warrant Bringing Back DDT?
That’s the whole raison d’etre ...Been waiting for this -
Lotsa money to make with DDT...
Now that the eagles, osprey, peregrine falcons, sea turtles, etc etc have finally made a comeback - let’s kill ‘em off again.
Doesn’t just kill off bird population:
Matching charts for the use of DDT and the rise of polio -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7Af_3bFFaw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l19smkrSNR4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Hw4R05zk7g
Go ahead, Freepers - flame away
I was an Army brat in Okinawa in the sixties, and we’ll remember the sprayer trucks dispensing clouds of DDT up and down the streets of the base housing areas.
We kids had a blast running after them and playing in the mist. Didn’t hurt us, but it sure did keep the mosquitos at bay.
Wanna prevent Zika and every other third world disease? Stop letting infected people into the country AND soak everything south of our border in DDT. At the rate we’re importing diseased third-worlders, we’ll see the bubonic plague make a comeback. Thank you ‘fairness’ and PC.
Well, of course we should be saturating Florida south of Lake Okeechobee with DDT, but the anti-human thinking that got us here and is keeping us here is a much bigger danger than Zika virus could ever be.
However, I predict: Puerto Ricans with little heads, even thousands of them, won’t be worth one Osprey nest. But five cases of microcephaly on the Gold Coast?
The C-130s loaded up with DDT will fly the very next day.
I remember using DDT on myself as a mosquito killer-repellent in Thailand 1969.
In 1956, we used to run behind the DDT truck spraying around the Animas River in Farmington NM. It was cool on a hot day!
WE should be dead or mutated!
I agree. What ever the reason they banned that DDT wasn’t because of health matters. I actually believe it was lawyers and government sponsored ‘researchers’ who wanted to use it for some kind of political reason.
1959-1962 I got exposed to DDT so much you’d think you were in a WWI movie with a gas attack. I never even coughed.
“... urogenital and developmental abnormalities in animals and, presumably, also in humans.”
That must be the reason after being enveloped in the stuff for at least 15 summers, I have managed to live in excellent for an additional 58 years.
A simple flea trap I use. I never use sprays anymore.
Take a small piece of wire fencing like I use, 2x4 welded wire fencing. 10 inches wide, eight inches long. Bend two inches of the edges down to create a three sided cage, no bottom or ends.
Place inside face up a paper glue trap, Tomcat or Catch Master glue boards. On top of the wire cage place a night light as used in a baby’s room in an extension cord. 7watt bulb works better, 4 watt will do. Shut off all the lights except the night light, close the doors to make the room dark.
OR you can plug the light into an outlet, underneath the outlet place the cage with the glue board in it.
Next morning the trap will be loaded with caught fleas. Use it for several weeks to catch other fleas as they hatch.
The wire cage is to prevent you from stepping on the trap and keep the light off the glue board.
**fire ants***
We used Chlordane on ants and it worked real well! So well the government banned it!
And Compound 1080 for coyotes!
It's just another RAT-lie from a long list of RAT-lies.
Just like all the others:
"R12/ozone layer" was a lie,
"Peak Oil" was a lie,
"Fracking/ground water pollution" was a lie,
"The Snail Darter" was a lie,
"The Crested Lousewort" was a lie,
"Toxic pressure-treated lumber" was a lie,
"GLOBAL WARMING" is a lie
...etc etc etc
In fact "The Environmental Movement" itself is a giant lie. They care nothing about the environment, but it's simply a political entity focused on shutting down the US private sector, by banning certain products and practices.
(Our goal is to ban a substance a year)
They are the new home for Soviet-style Communism world wide.
Simple question...Out of 10,000 children born to Zika infected moms, how many will be born with small brains?
As a child they sprayed our village with a concentration that had DDT in it. I will bet you the Cancer and death rate per capita was nowhere near what it is today.
As a child they sprayed our village with a concentration that had DDT in it. I will bet you the Cancer and death rate per capita was nowhere near what it is today.
You forgot the spotted owl. Funny, once my mother said “that tree looks like it had an owl’s nest in it at some time.”
I cut it down the next day.
I had to leave some for the rest of you.
:0)
Does DDT also kill the bees? That can cause a problem in agricultural areas, like parts of Florida.
I grew up in Florida. In the summer the mosquito fogger truck would come down the street every night while we were still out playing kickball or something. We used to just stand there and get enveloped in the fog. Some nights the mosquito dusting plane would fly over dropping dust. We used to run up under the overhang of the porch til it passed over and then resume playing. As far as I know most of usdusd are still around to talk about it. :-)
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