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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (936584)	5/24/2016 4:31:54 PM
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My guess is that he thinks DDT is the only insecticide in the world which kills mosquitoes. No, but its the only truly efficient insecticide with a proven record of being harmless to humans, inherently cheap, because easy to mass produce and not covered by any patents, and - with a long track record of killing off most mosquitos. As CJ has correctly pointed out, however, an overly ambitious year long general usage of DDT in agriculture back then did indeed create some resistance with targeted mosquito stems. Aedes Aegypti, the carrier of the Zika virus, which right now for good reason remains in our focus, wasn't one of them, though. If anything close to the worst expectations about a Zika epidemy ever come true, no doubt in my mind, that DDT will be back in a big way for spray vector control. /Taro

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