> We were well on our way to wiping out malaria until DDT was banned.
Wrong:
1. Mosquitoes were becoming DDT-resistant. A lot of them still are.
2. DDT is still used in some places, most notably the ones where malaria is still a problem.
3. Mosquito netting is still a big lifesaver in the regions DDT is still used. Why, if DDT works so well, would we need the massive mosquito netting drives?
> DDT is banned from agricultural use (and rightly so because of environmental damage) but can still be used for disease prevention. JTFCSS pretends that there is a ban so they can hang malaria deaths around the neck of environmentalists.
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> Yes, the mosquitoes in Sri Lanka have evolved resistance to DDT. It doesn’t work any more. In fact, that is the reason why they stopped using DDT in Sri Lanka. It wasn’t because of any ban—it was because it stopped being effective.
Wrong:
1. Mosquitoes were becoming DDT-resistant. A lot of them still are.
2. DDT is still used in some places, most notably the ones where malaria is still a problem.
3. Mosquito netting is still a big lifesaver in the regions DDT is still used. Why, if DDT works so well, would we need the massive mosquito netting drives?
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=3186
http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2005/01/24/ddt/
> DDT is banned from agricultural use (and rightly so because of environmental damage) but can still be used for disease prevention. JTFCSS pretends that there is a ban so they can hang malaria deaths around the neck of environmentalists.
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> Yes, the mosquitoes in Sri Lanka have evolved resistance to DDT. It doesn’t work any more. In fact, that is the reason why they stopped using DDT in Sri Lanka. It wasn’t because of any ban—it was because it stopped being effective.