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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: combjelly who wrote (418748)9/21/2008 4:18:04 PM
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"In 1973, after DDT had been used for malaria control for over a decade, there were less than 400 cases of malaria in all of South Africa, and in 1977 only a single malaria death occurred. Now, not only is the number of malaria cases increasing, but the rate of increase is also accelerating.

"Since South Africa yielded to political and economic pressure from the developed nations and stopped the use of DDT in 1995, its rate of malaria infections has quadrupled, and hundreds of additional deaths have occurred."
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