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To: Lurker
so it's perfectly alright for some African villagers kids to suffer from malaria, or west nile fever, or some other mosquito borne disease.

That's exactly what many of the anti-pesticide mob want.

Banning DDT to control the population

Population control advocates blamed DDT for increasing third world population. In the 1960s, World Health Organization authorities believed there was no alternative to the overpopulation problem but to assure that up to 40 percent of the children in poor nations would die of malaria. As an official of the Agency for International Development stated, "Rather dead than alive and riotously reproducing."

84 posted on 07/03/2002 8:50:40 PM PDT by Squawk 8888
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To: Squawk 8888
It is really tempting to agree with WHO when you live so close by.
85 posted on 07/03/2002 8:53:59 PM PDT by Old Professer
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