It will be interesting to see if the D acronym DDT is uttered at the malaria Woodstock. DDT could follow CSNY, alphabetically.

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Gates Foundation should work to bring back use of DDT
Lou Guzzo
Sunday, September 23rd, 2007 at 5:12 pm

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which has poured billions into combating AIDS and other diseases, primarily in Africa, has invested $1.14 billion into scientific research designed to find a miracle drug to cure malaria cases, also an extremely serious problem in African countries.

Reporters for the Seattle Times have just detailed the great effort that is being made in Tanzania, Africa to develop that cure. However, it is unfortunate that neither the Times reporters nor the Gates Foundation have devoted any time at all to the real solution to the world’s malaria crisis.

I have written and spoken about that real solution so many times that I am amazed that little or no attention has been paid to it — except in recent times by the World Heath Organization. Instead of spending so much time, money, and effort on finding a cure, which has been totally elusive to scientists, the world should be zeroing in on the malaria preventative, which already exists and which once proved extremely effective.

My old friend, Dr. Dixy Lee Ray, and I documented the tragic story of DDT in our book, Environmental Overkill, and repeated it again and again without attracting the attention of American and foreign political leaders. Because it’s so important, I must tell it once more with the hope that it will bring positive action.

Early in the last century, scientists came up with the new insecticide and pesticide, DDT, whose purpose was to be spread over swamps and other lands, particularly in hot climates. After extremely successful testing, DDT was employed in mosquito-infested areas in America’s South and, gradually, in swamplands in many other nations.

Beginning in the 1930s, the deaths from malaria began to plummet markedly wherever DDT was used. Before DDT, the annual world death rate from malaria was at the astounding 3,000,000 mark. Within just a few years late in the 1930s, the yearly death rate was reduced remarkably from 3,000,000 to just a few hundred — and the complete eradication of malaria was in sight before long.

Then, with the publication of Rachel Carson’s scientifically inaccurate book, Silent Spring, the extreme environmentalist camp began a movement to persuade political leaders to ban DDT from use because, they said, they had proof that the insecticide damaged eagles’ eggs, of all fairy tales! It is to the political leaders’ eternal disgrace that they permitted the ban to go into effect — a ban that was copied worldwide.

Within a short time, the world’s malaria death rate began soaring again, until at this date in history, it has risen once more to the 3,000,000-a-year mark. The Gates Foundation should heed the advice of the W.H.O. and legitimate scientists and re-direct its efforts to restoring use of one of the greatest scientific discoveries known, DDT — and to saving 3,000,000 lives a year!

In the meantime, I believe those wacko environmentalists who led the movement to ban DDT in the 1970s should face charges of genocide!

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