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Florida Now Spraying Neurotoxic Pesticide Banned in Other Countries to Combat Zika
Free Thought Project ^ | 08/07/16 | Claire Bernish

Posted on 08/07/2016 2:30:39 PM PDT by Enlightened1

Areas of Miami, Florida, are now being sprayed with the insecticide naled in an attempt to eradicate the Aedes aegypti mosquito — carrier of the zika virus. Naled, a potent neurotoxin that kills mosquitoes on contact, is perfectly safe, or so the Environmental Protection Agency insists, despite Puerto Rico’s rejection of its use to combat the spread of zika there — due to concerns about its safety.

To keep naled airborne where it would be most effective, the agent is sprayed in very fine aerosol droplets — about two tablespoons can be dispersed to cover an area the equivalent of two football fields, a local CBS affiliate reported.

If a ‘far greater’ amount of naled were employed, according to the Florida Department of Health, ‘it could cause a person to salivate more, feel numbness, headaches, dizziness, tremors, nausea, abdominal cramps, sweating, blurred vision, difficulty breathing and a slowed heartbeat.’

Though fear of the zika virus — which may cause microcephaly, or reduced head size, in babies born to infected mothers — and lack of federal funding for a vaccine have left Florida officials desperate for options, the use of naled has stoked controversy.

Beside possible adverse health effects, experts argue whether or not spraying campaigns are even effective in diminishing mosquito populations, particularly because the insects can live indoors or in small, enclosed areas where spray wouldn’t necessarily reach.

On Wednesday, airplanes were set to begin spraying naled aerosol over an approximately 10-square-mile section of Miami, centered over the neighborhood of Wynwood, where zika has reportedly been spreading — but wind conditions forced a delay.

 

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: chemicals; conspiracytheories; disease; fogging; hysteria; immigration; openborders; pesticide; publichealth; zika
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To: Enlightened1

We don’t have any spraying where I live. One of my neighbors chastised me a number of years ago because when he walked his dog past our property he was beseiged by mosquitos.

We now have two bug-zappers in our front yard. They are incredibly effective.


21 posted on 08/07/2016 3:46:29 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Talisker

My great uncle was a big farmer in eastern North Dakota from the 30’s into the 90’s. He used to mix DDT and water with his bare arms. He passed in 1998 at the at the ripe old age of 89. DDT didn’t hurt that him a bit.


22 posted on 08/07/2016 3:46:56 PM PDT by WMarshal (Trump 2016)
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To: republicanbred

Testing testing, WHO are crouching behind closed doors, hands sweaty rubbing them together as they villonously groan, maybe this will be the one


23 posted on 08/07/2016 3:55:37 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: familyop

They sprayed/fogged with DDT when we were kids-we used to put a cloth over our nose and mouth and run behind the truck in the fog-it was supposed to be harmful to animals-especially birds-but not humans-and it wasn’t a neurotoxin, like this s*** is-they should bring back the DDT for a few months instead of spraying this stuff...


24 posted on 08/07/2016 4:10:35 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Dogbert41
"Just get out the DDT."

As kids back in the 50's, we used to ride bicycles behind the village's fog truck that sprayed DDT. It did not hurt us a bit -- then again?

25 posted on 08/07/2016 4:21:11 PM PDT by buckalfa (Yes I am concerned, therefore I must be a concern troll or at least a negative nellie.)
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To: hal ogen

I won’t argue but what happened to the eagles and the hawks? I could see that it might have disrupted the food chain or something but birds of prey were almost non-existent for many years. I don’t remember other birds being in short supply but definitely hawks and eagles.


26 posted on 08/07/2016 4:27:44 PM PDT by tiki
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To: Dogbert41
Or start breeding bats.

We have a mosquito epidemic and just where is the Batman?

27 posted on 08/07/2016 4:32:48 PM PDT by BipolarBob (#WhiteTrashLivesMatters)
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To: buckalfa

“As kids back in the 50’s, we used to ride bicycles behind the village’s fog truck that sprayed DDT.”

The fogger trucks were more popular than ice cream trucks and drew more kids to follow than the pied piper.


28 posted on 08/07/2016 4:34:37 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Trump IS the revolution)
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To: Enlightened1

29 posted on 08/07/2016 4:44:11 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: tiki

http://www.foxnews.com/story/2006/07/06/bald-eagle-ddt-myth-still-flying-high.html

DDT was banned in 1972. The following year, the Bald Eagle was placed on the new Endangered Species List. Even back in the early 1920’s the government was warning of the decline of eagles due to killing of them. (Viewed as a threat to livestock and other small game animals.)

The article discusses studies where eagles were fed DDT with no adverse results.


30 posted on 08/07/2016 4:53:46 PM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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To: hal ogen

I’ve wondered if this reflected a smaller number of bugs available for the birds’ diet, meaning that the DDT did what it was intended to do, but unfortunately this side effect also starved the birds of calcium.


31 posted on 08/07/2016 4:57:24 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: familyop
Worse stuff was fogged from trucks every mosquito season where I grew up.

DDT was not worse, probably the safest insecticide we ever had until that lying Rachel Carson.

32 posted on 08/07/2016 4:57:48 PM PDT by itsahoot (Trump kills PC--Hillary kills USA--Pick one.)
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To: Talisker
" "When you grew up" it was DDT.

That was safe for humans. This stuff is not.
"

The use of DDT declined, because mosquitoes became resistant to it. Naled works.

Scientists Discover Gene That Makes Mosquitoes Resistant To DDT And Other Insecticides
http://www.isciencetimes.com/articles/6880/20140225/scientists-discover-gene-makes-mosquitoes-resistant-ddt.htm

DDT and Malaria
Pesticide Resistence

https://sites.duke.edu/malaria/4-gene-environment-interactions/pesticide-resistence/

Genetic secret of mosquito resistance to DDT, bed net insecticides discovered
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140224204808.htm

Why mosquitoes are resistant to DDT but susceptible to deltamethrin?
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Why_mosquitoes_are_resistant_to_DDT_but_susceptible_to_deltamethrin

Pyrethroid and DDT Resistance and Organophosphate Susceptibility among Anopheles spp. Mosquitoes, Western Kenya
http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/21/12/15-0814_article

Quite a few myths have been circulated about DDT. It is harmful to reproductive systems in people and animals.

The Stockholm Convention on persistent organic pollutants allowed an exemption for mosquito control. DDT was banned for general agricultural use because of its toxicity and persistence in the environment. Individual nations can decide as to whether or not to use it. The WHO even promoted its use for indoor mosquito control to prevent malaria.


33 posted on 08/07/2016 5:00:26 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: 21twelve

Sounds reasonable, I do remember farmers shooting them.


34 posted on 08/07/2016 5:02:28 PM PDT by tiki
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To: 21twelve

Killing off the insects that were at the bottom of the food chain for birds that eagles dined on, probably had knock-on ill effects to the eagles. When captive eagles fed a control diet got a DDT supplement, of course this was not a factor.

I’d think this should teach us that it would not be wrong to bring back DDT, but that it should be carefully used. Too widespread a distribution in nature, and birds will be starved. Maybe this new chemical is only fatal to mosquitos, making it preferable ecologically.


35 posted on 08/07/2016 5:02:41 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: tiki
I won’t argue but what happened to the eagles and the hawks?

Mercury poisoning most likely.

Their decline began before DDT was around and began to recover while DDT was still in use.

The only bird that were affected by DDT were birds like purple martians and some song birds that eat mosquitoes.

But as mosquitoes made up a insignificant part of their diet (around 2%) it was not a major problem.

36 posted on 08/07/2016 5:03:50 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: familyop
Quite a few myths have been circulated about DDT.

Agreed.

It is harmful to reproductive systems in people and animals.

And that is one of them.

37 posted on 08/07/2016 5:05:31 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: Talisker

Many of us are still around despite our childhood fascination with the DDT fogging trucks cruising through our neighborhoods, but we also endured around 100 atmospheric nuclear weapons tests upwind from us. Yet, in bipartisan political speech, there is much whining in favor of cowering in reaction to foreign enemies threatening us with their inferior, unreliable nuclear weapons despite our anti-missile defenses.


38 posted on 08/07/2016 5:10:22 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: Enlightened1

Too bad they can’t use somthing nice and safe, like DDT.


39 posted on 08/07/2016 5:55:54 PM PDT by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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To: Enlightened1

The whole Zika crisis is a bureaucratic criminal joke. A year ago the CDC could have instituted a travel ban to and from Brazil and then arranged assistance through the Dept. of Agriculture or State to attack Zika at its source.

But nooooooo, they sat in there offices and schemed to extort money from Congress for their “Turn you kids queer” and “Count your parents guns” programs along with the usual grants to buddies program.

So now their buddies are getting huge no-compete contracts to spray ineffective sprays on the ground and from the air in addition to the door-to-door testing. Doctors incomes are up significantly for unnecessary pat-on-the-head visits.

Notice any similarity between the Zika crisis and the Ebola crisis? I mean even down to the TV rent-a-docs (La Poop, etc.) crying out the end of the world is near if they don’t get their multi-billion dollar slush fund.


40 posted on 08/07/2016 6:01:56 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (The Mofia is a private crime family; whereas, the DOJ is the gov't's political crime family.)
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