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Is DDT For Mosquitos Making A Comeback?
Is DDT For Mosquitos Making A Comeback?
The World Health Organization is calling for wider use of the once banned chemical DDT to help control malaria carrying mosquitoes in Africa. More than one million people, 800,000 of them children, are estimated to die from malaria in Africa yearly. The DDT spray is intended to treat mosquito netting and the inside walls of dwellings in danger prone areas. DDT has long been derided because of the possible serious environmental effects. When it was all but taken off the market, the world lost a highly effective insect killing agent. Approximately ten African countries use it and several others are considering it. Some countries will not import food from African nations that use DDT on a widespread basis. The danger of using more DDT is the slippery slope of once it is readily available; it will find more and more uses due to the highly effective nature of this chemical.
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