On Thursday, December 22, 2016 at 6:56:34 AM UTC-8, wrote:
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Jay - you do understand that "indoor spraying" of DDT is pretty worthless? Andre is speaking of millions of deaths from Malaria in Africa but it is also endemic in India and through-out southern Asia.

People stood in line to multiply this disease that was on the verge of dying out because of the use of DDT because Rachel Carson wrote a book blaming DDT for bird deaths that were never scientifically proven.

Tom -- you do understand that "indoor spraying" of DDT is highly effective in controlling non-resistant mosquitoes and that DDT was never banned in India and China? You do understand that hundred still die of malaria in India, and that India -- a DDT spraying country -- has the third highest malaria rate in the world? http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/c...w/49017287.cms You do, don't you?


-- Jay Beattie.