What the World Needs is DDT
April 21st, 2004 by joby
Foreign Dispatches has most of a NY Times Magazine Article that everyone should read. About two million people die every year because of malaria, and the western world is doing everything it can to prevent the developing world from using the best weapon to combat Malaria ever developed: DDT. The West is doing this because of the hysteria generated by the overuse in the US and elsewhere, even though the current use of DDT is perfectly safe to the environment. Anyone that supports the ban on funding DDT spraying is responsible for 1-2 million deaths per year — mostly in Africa.