[Jim Noble]

I'm no infectious disease specialist

Well, I'm board-certified,and I assure you that DDT is essential to combat malaria.

It will also eliminate West Nile, EEE, and a variety of other undesireables.

[Gay State Conservative]

Well, I'm board-certified,and I assure you that DDT is essential to combat malaria.It will also eliminate West Nile, EEE, and a variety of other undesirables.

OK,I have no trouble accepting that.But am I correct to suspect that the vector of these diseases will,over time,develop a resistance to the DDT thus putting the people of various tropical regions right back where they started?

Posing that question is the closest I came to objecting to the use of DDT in malaria hot spots.

[Rembrandt]

'I'm no infectious disease specialist
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Well, I'm board-certified,and I assure you that DDT is essential to combat malaria.

It will also eliminate West Nile, EEE, and a variety of other undesireables.
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Timely, pertinent and excellent post. Thank you! FR is blessed to have people like you among its readership and contributors.