As a retired ecologist/entomologist, I continue to follow the
DDT option with great interest.  In Fiji, I saw how massive
application of chlorohydrocarbon pesticides could select for
resistant survivors within 3 years.

I had hoped that wall applications might be less selective for
mosquitoes before or after they fed.  However, I gather that
our unnatural selection has created strains flying straight into
 a hut, feeding, and flying straight out again.

Mosquito nets treated with insecticide, not necessarily DDT,
 seem to be a better bet, although it is sad to realize how few
in the tropics have and use such nets.

Prevention of malaria and many other tropical diseases will continue
to require a combination of research, education, immunization,=20
sanitation, and physical protection!

I have nothing against DDT itself; it did a fine job on my crab lice
in Korea!

Dr. Dexter Hinckley=20

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