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?
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.
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.
What and sell out their hero, Rachel Carson.
Malaria justifies it, if you aren’t a Progressive bent on population reduction.
It is still produced isn’t it? For export?
Malaria didn’t.
There are vaccines Gardasil and other drugs FDA approved that are more dangerous than DDT.
Look up all those Osteoporosis drugs, all are FDA Flagged and Foreto is also black boxed for Bone Cancer.
Should also bring back 612 insect repellant.
Well, millions of deaths in third world countries wasn’t reason enough to bring it back, maybe the threat of liberals ‘little snookums’ pregnant daughters contracting Zika might overcome their Rachel Carson lying BS and allow it to get reapproved.
Nah. Won’t happen. Not in a million years. They would rather see their own grandchildren or children deformed and die before saying they were wrong about DDT.
DDT ban was because some study said that it caused eagle egg shells to be thin.
Wind Generators get a free pass to chop up eagles for the next 30 years.
Yes we are stupid.
If Black Lives Really Matter DDT would have been brought back many years ago. Disgusting that the things that actually prevent the most deaths of blacks...restricting abortions, ddt and the second amendment.....the left is against.
No. With Zika, people are born democrats.
I notice the author says nothing about birds. Odd, since that's where the negative effects are most noticeable.
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.