Well they’ve finally come around and made it official.

But now, there are other environmentalists created obstacles that must be overcome. Because while there is now more approval for spraying DDT, there are trade organizations in some African nations that have real concerns. The indoor spraying means that people who must take their harvested crops and other foods indoors will end up having them on or near the walls sprayed with DDT. Estimates are that DDT use won’t hurt the food supply, but environmentalists restrictions on food exports require a DDT level at or near zero.

Now we know the people who run these trade organizations are doing well enough for themselves, that they personally can afford more ways to fight malaria than the people in the mud huts. And when there is speak of compromise, we know the true result will be to tie up any actual use of DDT in debate, while nothing is changed and people really do die.

The WHO has already said openly that DDT is most effective. So it should be used where it will still prove most effective. It’s true mosquitoes build up a resistance to most anything, but in some areas the mosquitoes are now resistant to anything effective, except DDT. As is noted in the first article linked above.

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Bednets soaked in different insecticides already are used to protect sleeping families. But if the nets are torn or aren’t used every night, a mosquito can infect someone. Plus, mosquitoes can develop resistance to those nets’ chemicals, Shiff added, pointing to a 2002 malaria outbreak in part of South Africa using bednets. DDT in those houses quelled the outbreak.
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I can understand the trade organizations’ concerns though and I don’t wish to see a nation’s economy collapse. So it is time to press that some of the screening restrictions related to DDT be scaled back. Otherwise, the Western World will be helping African nations save lives on one hand, while turning them away as trade partners with the other. It has already been determined, that the food supply in nations using DDT won’t be harmed in a way that causes damage to consumers, but one environmentalist organization, the Pesticide Action Network says they are concerned about the effects of DDT on developing children. HEY ANTI-PESTICIDE IDIOTS, 500,000,000 people get malaria each year and over 1,000,000 die from it, most of those victims are children. So stop trying to play like you care about babies in mud huts! In the places where DDT is being used, there has not been massive crying about children being adversely affected. And if there is any I don’t know about, there certainly has not been any adverse effects noted that outweigh the risks of not using DDT. Otherwise I’m sure the anti-do what makes good sense nuts (aka environmentalists) would have already let us know all about it. Instead, their complaints about DDT are finally being ignored to a degree, as they should be. Enough people have already died as a result of their “concerns”.

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