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

The Washington Post;  June 5, 2005 ;   May Berenbaum;   787 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 ;   Danielle Knight;   787 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...

ENVIRONMENTALISTS ARE PERNICIOUS ELITISTS; MALARIA WOULD BE ALL BUT WIPED...

Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  November 16, 1998 ;     660 words ......numerous unsupported allegations against DDT as the bad guy of chemical insecticides...years ago until Carson put her curse upon DDT. The U.N. and the world are now discovering...consequences of that thoughtless attack on DDT. Malaria was on its way to extinction until...

The malaria/DDT debate heats up.

Townsend Letter: The Examiner of Alternative Medicine;  May 1, 2007 ;   Williams, Rose Marie;   787 words ......use of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) to sharply reduce the death toll to children and adults from malaria. DDT is inexpensive to produce, effective in...have immediate short-term success. However, DDT has a very dark side, which must also be...

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

The Washington Post;  November 8, 2004 ;   Cheryl Lyn Dybas;   787 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...

It's time to start spraying DDT again

International Herald Tribune;  January 11, 2005 ;   Nicholas D. Kristof;   705 words ......thousands of lives. It would be to allow DDT in malaria-ravaged countries. I'm thrilled...the world's poor by opposing the use of DDT. ''It's a colossal tragedy,'' says Donald...bureaucracies.'' In the 1950s, '60s and early '70s, DDT was used to reduce malaria around the world...

DDT could reduce malaria in Third World

Chicago Sun-Times;  April 22, 2001 ;   Betsy Hart;   632 words ......really want to get rid of these things-I'd use DDT on them if I could." I was joking, of course, given that DDT is the pesticide that virtually has become...But the outrage is not, and never was, the DDT. Instead it's the Western environmental extremists...

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

Insight on the News;  August 5, 2002 ;   Carter, Tom;   787 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 ;   Bill Kemp;   750 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 ;     707 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...

Misguided views on DDT.(LETTERS)

The Washington Times;  August 31, 2005 ;     503 words ......THE WASHINGTON TIMES The real trouble with DDT (Letters, Aug. 23) could only have been...States or a European nation. Both overused DDT to eradicate malaria, yellow fever and other...forgotten, justifiably, and we'd be spraying DDT again in a flash. The letter did not even...

EPA Moves to Cap Risks Of DDT on Ocean Floor; As Firm's Trial Looms,...

The Washington Post;  September 5, 2000 ;   William Booth;   787 words ......Chemical Corp. flushed a river of the pesticide DDT from its factory in nearby Torrance, Calif...can and should be done about the biggest DDT dump in the nation. "This is one of the...with clean sediment placed on top of the DDT. But no one has tried to do this before...

WHO Guidelines May Increase DDT Use

AP Online;  September 15, 2006 ;     718 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...

WWF Calls for Globe Ban on DDT

Xinhua English Newswire;  January 27, 1999 ;     238 words ......Wildlife Fund (WWF) has demanded a global ban in 2007 on DDT, citing a report full of new scientific evidence of hazards...discharges of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) like DDT. Although DDT is banned in 34 countries and severely restricted in 34...