Indeed. Malaria was almost a thing of the past like Polio.
Her book was full of BS, but the ban still goes on.
When I was given that book to read as a kid, we could still run behind the DDT mosquito fogger Jeep at the Chessie bay campgrounds on vacation.
None of us died.
Wish I could say the same for the millions of little kids who had no fogger Jeeps to follow.
Even at that tender age, I called BS.
And now we have such fun little zoonoses things as West Nile, Ehrlichiosis and Lyme to enjoy.
Lucky us.