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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

DDT saves millions of lives, and ban is immoral

Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  July 8, 2004 ;     596 words ......environmental extremists have sought to ban all DDT use. Using phony studies from the Environmental...activist-controlled Environmental Protection Agency banned DDT in 1972. The extremists convinced the nation that DDT was not only unsafe for humans but unsafe to...

U.S. takes new view on DDT in Africa; Insecticide best to fight...

The Washington Times;  May 3, 2006 ;     700+ words ......enthusiastically endorsing and funding the use of DDT in sub-Saharan Africa after years of resisting...really pretty aggressive about supporting DDT use against the mosquitoes that spread malaria...in USAID's global health bureau: We think DDT is an excellent insecticide and that, in...

South African health officials go back to using DDT.(Knight Ridder...

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  December 17, 2000 ;     700+ words ......officials thought it was safe to stop using DDT, the notorious insecticide banned in most...said they had no choice but to go back to DDT, even though the pesticide is widely blamed...environmental health officer who supervises 17 DDT-spraying teams that resumed work in May...

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

Cape Times (South Africa);  July 17, 2007 ;     406 words ......intention of phasing out the controversial use of DDT for malaria control, in spite of studies that have linked DDT to low sperm counts in young men in areas...of persistent organic pollutants, including DDT, its use appears to have doubled since then...

OUTSIDE VIEW: DDT STILL SAVING LIVES

United Press International;  November 11, 2002 ;     700+ words ...00-00-0000 Outside View: DDT still saving lives PRETORIA, South Africa...reason for the epidemic was the removal of DDT from the malaria control program -- the...African Department of Health reintroduced DDT in 2000 and in one year saw an 80 percent...

DDT resistance and transformation by different microbial strains isolated...

Compost Science & Utilization;  October 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......1-trichloro-2, 2-bis (4-chlorophenyl) ethane (DDT) contaminated sites. In areas where suitable microbes are not present, the use of DDT resistant microbial inoculants may be necessary...DDE). Therefore, this work aimed to screen DDT-contaminated soil and compost materials...