If Malaria's the Problem, DDT's Not the Only Answer

The Washington Post;  June 5, 2005 ;     700+ words ...In the pantheon of poisons, DDT occupies a special place. It's the only...famous "Hey, farmer, farmer put away your DDT now" -- for damaging the environment. Banned...the Notorious B.I.G. of pesticides. Now DDT is making headlines again. Many African...

ENVIRONMENT-HEALTH: WATCHDOG CALLS FOR GLOBAL BAN ON DDT

Inter Press Service English News Wire;  January 29, 1999 ;     700+ words ......29 (IPS) -- There is enough evidence that DDT is hazardous to human health and wildlife...developing nations. About 30,000 metric tonnes of DDT are produced each year in at least five...damage to their nervous and immune systems. DDT, it says, "can be sprayed in a village in...

Seaweed May Have Future Use As Cleaner of DDT-Polluted Soil

The Washington Post;  November 8, 2004 ;     700+ words ......cleaning up soil polluted by the pesticide DDT. Ian Singleton of the University of Newcastle...powdered green and red seaweed mixed into DDT- contaminated soil. They found that 80 percent...amounts of seaweed facilitate the breakdown of DDT by microbes that live in soil. The polluted...

Africa's other deadly plague: malaria kills one child under age 5 every 30...

Insight on the News;  August 5, 2002 ;     700+ words ......have been prevented with limited use of DDT, the chemical insecticide that brings a...mosquito nets, other insecticides and drugs, DDT needs to be one of them. Attaran, also a...leading a worldwide crusade to bring back DDT. People who oppose the insecticide are simply...

DDT saves lives.(LETTERS)

The Washington Times;  June 8, 2007 ;     431 words ......every year from readily preventable disease ( DDT is unsafe ). His facts are wrong, and his policy...lived if their countries had been able to use DDT. The World Health Organization reinstituted DDT use for malaria control because it recognized...

Post-war years ushered in age of DDT pesticide

The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL;  May 4, 2008 ;     700+ words ......Corn Belt embraced the chemical known as DDT, and for the better part of the next two...hydrocarbon known by its abbreviated name DDT, and it proved effective in killing houseflies...War II refugees. The U.S. military used DDT to control malaria in the Pacific Theater...

Roundup: Uganda lacks fund to start indoor DDT spraying in malaria fight

Xinhua News Agency;  April 24, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Roundup: Uganda lacks fund to start indoor DDT spraying in malaria fight KAMPALA, April...doubt that the planned indoor spraying of DDT to fight the disease will start in July...the spraying. "We don't have money to buy DDT right now," Otaala was quoted by Daily Monitor...

WHO Guidelines May Increase DDT Use

AP Online;  September 15, 2006 ;     700+ words ......pumping up their arsenal against malaria with DDT, the pesticide long banned in the United States. The difference: DDT is no longer sprayed outdoors, but to coat...malaria-plagued countries already using DDT. The push is for more indoor spraying with...

Research shows need for a worldwide DDT ban

Daily Breeze;  November 16, 2006 ;     654 words ...DDT has not been a factor in American life since 1972, when the...that babies and toddlers of California farmworkers exposed to DDT in their home countries suffer slowing of mental and physical...s a completely new side effect never before detected from DDT (dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane), better known ...

Resurrection of DDT : need for caution/Authors' Response

Indian Journal of Medical Research;  December 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Apropos the editorial on resurrection of DDT by Dash et al'. The authors have highlighted...attributes and unquestionable utility of DDT in vectorborne disease control, particularly...India. The unwarranted misuse and overuse of DDT in agriculture and public health during...

WHO Urges Use of DDT in Africa; Call for Applications of Pesticide Changes...

The Washington Post;  September 16, 2006 ;     697 words ......support for indoor use of the pesticide DDT to control mosquitoes in regions where malaria...may pose. "Indoor residual spraying with DDT and other insecticides will again play a...especially mud and thatched huts. Used that way, DDT functions as both an insect repellent and...

The ghost of DDT.(Science Desk)

Alternatives Journal;  July 1, 2006 ;     327 words ...DESPITE DECADES-long attempts to ban or limit DDT use, the legacy of DDT is still with us and continues to threaten bird populations...Finkelstein and colleagues measured concentrations of DDT in blood samples taken from the Laysan albatross and...

EU warns Uganda against use of DDT to fight malaria

Xinhua News Agency;  February 2, 2005 ;     282 words ...EU warns Uganda against use of DDT to fight malaria EU warns Uganda against use of DDT to fight malaria KAMPALA, Feb. 2 (Xinhua) -- The European Union (EU) has warned Uganda against using DDT for malaria control before the wider implications...

DDT Is a Good Chemical.(Brief Article)

The American Enterprise;  January 1, 2001 ;     306 words ...A.G. Smith, How Toxic Is DDT? and D.R. Roberts, S. Manguin, and J. Mouchet, DDT House Spraying and Reemerging Malaria, in The Lancet...triumph of the environmental movement was the banning of DDT, now outlawed in all industrialized countries and much...

DDT Ban Continues to Kill People

Human Events;  July 19, 2004 ;     622 words ......environmental extremists have sought to ban all DDT use. Using phony studies from the Environmental...Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) banned DDT in 1972. The extremists convinced the nation that DDT was not only unsafe for humans but unsafe to...