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These 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 ma
by whyenot 10y ago
These 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...