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  • WSJ: Death by Environmentalist (DDT, and the silent spring of human beings dead of malaria)

    12/29/2004 6:14:52 AM PST · by OESY · 10 replies · 1,653+ views
    Wall Street Journal ^ | December 29, 2004 | Editorial
    Aid workers tending to the ravaged islands and coastlines of southern Asia say a big concern is an outbreak of malaria and other waterborne diseases.... Which reminds us of a just-out World Health Organization report anticipating a shortage in a key antimalarial drug.... This news about treatments wouldn't be so devastating but for the fact that the international groups in charge still can't get malaria prevention under control. And that's the real tragedy. A blight that has been all but eliminated in the West, malaria still claims between one million and two million lives every year in the underdeveloped world....