[IVote2]

I think DDT should be used, but it won't happen unless and until there are many more deaths. That is unfortuate but a sad truth.

Environmentalists never admit they are wrong and they never will.

Jen

[upchuck]

There was another article similar to this one posted here recently. I'm like IVote2; I agree with the article's premise but am pragmatic enough to know thousands will have to die before the envirowackos even begin to rethink their ridiculous stance on DDT.

And isn't it amazing their stance on this has amazing parallels to the antiwarwackos stance on the war on terrorrism?

[chemainus]

"When DDT is sprayed in excessive doses, as was done by the federal government in the 1950’s and 1960’s, some species of birds can suffer negative effects. Yet as 50 years of evidence shows, when DDT is used properly, no negative effects to humans are reported (or to animals, for that matter), while a whole host of mosquito-borne diseases are eradicated. " I have not seen this in the journals. The reports I have seen and the experiments to prove Rachel Carsons claims true all showed precisely that she was lying.

[SierraWasp]

Nice catch!

Didn't I see a news item yesterday, or the day before about a malaria outbreak somewhere in the USA?

All the "wetlands," formerly "swamps," are now "Waters of The United States" and much of it isn't even wet! The determination is the type of vegatation found growing in such unproductive land.(unproductive, except for mosquitos)

Conspiracy "Keepers Of Odd Knowledge" folks are trying to blame Saddam, Castro and Al Quida, but so many are just oblivious to the obvious! I don't care if it's DDT or some other long lasting insecticide, but we have to fight this EnviornMentalist misanthropy.

They want to kill Americans just as much as the terrorists since they too long for the "Dark Ages!"

[AAABEST]

Hit back at the envirowhacks.

[texasbluebell]

When DDT is sprayed in excessive doses, as was done by the federal government in the 1950’s and 1960’s, some species of birds can suffer negative effects.

Well, considering the fact that around where I live, there are no longer any crows, and now I have just found out that the bluejays are gone too, and I know the sparrow population has been hit pretty hard, and there are now reports that West Nile is in the squirrel population, as well as a dog recently having been diagnosed, not to mention all the horses that have come down with it, I wonder what the govt and/or the CDC propose we do.

[Straight Vermonter]

Ping

[blondee123]

I had heard on the news a few days ago, that a bald eagle in Illinois died from WNV in a zoo. They went on to say that they were vaccinating the rest for WNV. Why is it that they have a vaccine for animals & not humans???? Surely, they'll do something now that a bald eagle has died from it (sarcasm)!