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Seems like it worked for the [USA and Europe][1]: > Prior to 1950, malaria was common in the southern US, infecting 15,000 people a year and killing about the
by scardine 10y ago
Seems like it worked for the [USA and Europe][1]:
> Prior to 1950, malaria was common in the southern US, infecting 15,000 people a year and killing about the same number as scarlet fever.
> Beginning in 1947, 4.6 million houses were sprayed in the United States, completely eradicating malaria from the country. Similar sprayings eradicated malaria from Europe.
> The Center for Disease Control (CDC) began as an organization to eradicate malaria. When malaria was gone, it sought other ways to benefit America. That’s why it’s located in Atlanta, GA, in the southern US.
[1]: http://scienceheroes.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=309&Itemid=263
- whyenot 10y agoThese points are unsourced "DDT Trivia" in the position paper (which is being generous) that you cite. There is no question that DDT helped with eradicating malaria from the US, but to give it all the credit to DDT seems a little generous to me. Malaria was also brought under control in Panama years before DDT was even known to be a pesticide. Cholorquin and cultural changes were also important. https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/about/history/ https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/about/history/
- joecool1029 10y agoNeat article on eradication of the A. aegypti mosquito in most of South America. http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/while-brazil-was-eradicating-zika-mosquitoes-america-made-them-into-weapons http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/while-brazil-was-eradic... The awesome effect that DDT had that most other pesticides didn't have is the excito-repellent effect, recent study on that: https://malariajournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1475-2875-13-131 https://malariajournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/14...