Reason.tv: Demonizing DDT – How the Scare Campaign Against ‘the Excellent Powder’ Has Cost Millions of Lives.

Reason.tv: Demonizing DDT – How the Scare Campaign Against 'the Excellent Powder' Has Cost Millions of Lives

If you've ever lived in a developing country as I did for 17 years and saw children die with dengue fever or malaria, then you know the value of DDT. If you've lived your whole life in Boston since the mid-20th century, you've not ever worried about mosquitoes except for the nuisance of their itchy bite. Now we think of malaria as a disease of the tropics but at one time in our history it was possible to catch malaria up and down the East Coast.

There definitely needs to be a new and unbiased study of this chemical. Too many have died and far too many will die without it.

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