[backhoe]

Thanks for looking- growing up in the South in the 1950's, I recall DDT as a Godsend- you sprayed it, bugs died. We used to look foreward to the county truck coming around because it meant we could play outside instead of bugging our parents.

[Aaron_A]

I remember those ddt spraying trucks as well.

[not-an-ostrich]

I too remember those ddt trucks. I wonder if the spray is the cause of the immune system disorders of myself and 5 siblings.

[brityank]

My brother and I came home with head lice in the early '50's, and my Mom got a small can that she sprinkled on our heads and beds and wiped them out. Carson and her sycophants have caused more misery and harm to the earth's populous than anything else before or since.

[B. A. Conservative]

In addition to the needless human deaths from malaria as a result of the ban on DDT, there is considerable economic costs to the over burdened US economy as well. What is the annual cost of termite inspections, treatments, and costs to repair termite damage in the US? A house treated once with DDT for termites, is termite-proof for the next five thousand years. Those of you who live in the south are familiar with fire ants. What are the costs to wildlife because of the fire ant invasion. My quail hunting buddies don't hunt much anymore because they claim fire ants eat the baby quail before they are large enough to defend themselves. Anybody remember something called the "law of unintended consequences"?