SA 'will continue use of DDT tocurb malaria'.(News)

Cape Times (South Africa);  July 17, 2007 ;     406 words ......controversial use of DDT for malaria control...that have linked DDT to low sperm counts in young men in...moving away from DDT. Scientists from...evidence of low sperm counts which they linked to the use of DDT. Levels of DDT in some of these...men had subnormal ...

ENVIRONMENT: NEW DATA ON DDT REVEALS NEED FOR MORE RESEARCH

Inter Press Service English News Wire;  June 15, 1995 ;     700+ words ......mosquito. But the NRI, summarizing a seven-year study of DDT use in Zimbabwe, which formally banned it this year, also agreed that new research into the side effects of DDT was long overdue. It noted that the World Health Organization approves DDT for controlling malarial mosquitoes, yet its last ...

SPERM COUNTS LINKED TO BIRTH RATE FLUCTUATION

The Washington Post;  March 4, 1997 ;     292 words ...Sperm counts vary widely from year to year, and the...Minnesota study shows. The results show that sperm counts are a more important factor in fertility...Center in New York. The link between sperm counts and fertility is well known in individuals...

Report finds steep drop in sperm counts Researcher says the next question...

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  November 24, 1997 ;     337 words ......and disputes about whether human sperm counts are decreasing, a definitive report says the verdict is clear: Sperm counts in the United States and Europe...60 years. The report found that sperm counts in the United States have fallen...

Roller-coaster sperm counts - and births. (sperm counts fluctuate from...

Science News;  April 5, 1997 ;     341 words ......years ago when they reported signs that sperm counts appeared to have fallen globally over...that even within the United States, sperm counts can vary dramatically between regions...collected over 24 years in Minnesota, sperm counts fluctuate from a high of 123 million...

HUGE DROP IN SPERM COUNTS REPORTED.(News)(Statistical Data Included)

Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  November 24, 1997 ;     700+ words ......and disputes about whether human sperm counts are decreasing, a definitive report says the verdict is clear: Sperm counts in the United States and Europe...60 years. The report found that sperm counts in the United States have fallen...

Sperm counts have declined in the last 60 years, study says.(Originated...

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  November 23, 1997 ;     700+ words ......and disputes about whether human sperm counts are decreasing, a definitive report says the verdict is clear: Sperm counts in the United States and Europe...60 years. The report found that sperm counts in the United States have fallen...

FERTILITY-DECLINE REPORTS CONTESTED : STUDIES SAY SPERM COUNTS HIGHER...

Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  April 29, 1996 ;     549 words ......reasons, consistently have the highest sperm counts of all - more than 50 percent higher than the sperm counts of men in Los Angeles, for example...the story of precipitously declining sperm counts, may seem confusing, some researchers...

Study: Sperm Counts Fall 33%

Chicago Sun-Times;  February 2, 1995 ;     242 words ...Men's sperm counts are falling, and no one knows why...a French study that found that the sperm counts of donors at a Paris sperm bank have...together, the studies suggest that men's sperm counts have dropped in half during the last...

Plummeting Sperm Counts Cause Concern.(lower sperm count in industrialized...

The Futurist;  November 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......nearly 15,000 subjects show that average sperm counts among healthy American men dropped from...a decline of 1.5% a year. In Europe, sperm counts fell by roughly the same amount between...considerable geographic variation in sperm counts. While declines have been demonstrated...

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...

Health: American studies confirm that sperm counts have halved over past...

The Independent - London;  November 25, 1997 ;     490 words ......yesterday that they had found to their dismay that sperm counts are even lower than had been reported. Two...confirmed earlier findings showing that average sperm counts have almost halved over the past 50 years...colleagues at Copenhagen University reported that sperm counts were ...

Shooting blanks?(criticism of research indicating decline in sperm counts)

Consumers' Research Magazine;  May 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ......frequently report that sperm counts have declined by 50% in...the purportedly falling sperm counts and other reproductive...shaky for the notion that sperm counts are declining at all...Skakkebaek concluded that sperm counts across the world had fallen...such as the ...

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...