Chris, I suppose I have to keep on confusing you with facts. Couple of excerpts on the in-house spraying of DDT to eradicate malaria - an effective and safe program. This one on the safety of DDT - probably the cheapest, safest, and most effective, pesticide ever invented.
"It is so safe, that no symptoms have been observed among the spraymen or among the inhabitants of the spray areas, which numbered respectively 130,000 and 535 million at the peak of the campaign. .. the DDT application is limited to the interior of the houses ." Statement from Vector Biology and Control, World Health Organisation,Gen. This second excerpt shows the amazing effectiveness of DDT before soppy environmentalists got it banned - a policy that has led to the deaths of millions of people, "it (WHO) is proud of its amazing record . . . and of having saved about five million lives and prevented 100 million illnesses . . . of having recently reduced the annual malaria death rate in India from 750,000 down to 1,500, and of having served at least 2 billion people in the world without causing the loss of a single life by poisoning from DDT a1one." Vector Biology and Control-WHO-Geneva. "The situation in Ceylon is a prime example of how rapidly and extensively malaria can return to an area if the protection of an active malaria program is not continued until complete eradication. Following a countrywide malaria eradication campaign in the 1950's and early 1960's, the number of confirmed malaria cases reached lows of 31 in 1962 and 17 in 1963, when full scale house spraying was partially withdrawn, and subsequently terminated in 1964. The cases increased annually thereafter, numbering 150 in 1964, 308 in 1965, 499 in 1966, and 3,466 in 1967, most of them occurring in the last few months of that year. In 1968, the epidemic flared rapidly 16,493 confirmed cases being reported in January and 42,161 in February. No DDT supplies were on hand with which to reinstate the house spraying program on the wide scale needed, and months were required for the procurement and delivery of them. As a result, more than a million cases of malaria occurred throughout the country in 1968. The wide distribution and high numbers of cases will, in effect, require the carrying through of another nationwide eradication program, based on DDT house spraying. Fortunately, the type of malaria involved in the Ceylon epidemic was mostly the so-called benign type, which generally has a low mortality rate." DDT in Malaria Control and Eradication: National Communicable Disease Center of Dept. HEW July 25th, 1969 Harry ******************************** Henry George School of Los Angeles Box 655 Tujunga CA 9104 818 352-4141 ******************************** -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Christoph Reuss Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 3:09 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Futurework] What's wrong with Gates "donations" Harry wrote: > So was I. ...referring to his earlier statement: >>> So long as they are spraying DDT twice a year, that is by far the >>> most effective. Not effective. If you spray DDT inside people's homes twice a year, the mosquitoes will always enter through the windows again. It IS effective to poison Africans in their homes, however. Which suits well to the genocidial agenda of the billionaires (who also invest in very toxic oil-spilling industries, to maximize their profits, esp. in Africa). Chris _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
