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To: longnshort who wrote (338042)	5/19/2007 3:24:50 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573958

Lie number 1. Malaria has never been "almost eradicated". Eradication Efforts Worldwide: Success and Failure (1955-1978) 4 stamps showing mosquitoes, from Mozambique, S Tome and Principe, Angola, and Cabo Verde Stamps highlighting malaria eradication With the success of DDT, the advent of less toxic, more effective synthetic antimalarials, and the enthusiastic and urgent belief that time and money were of the essence, the World Health Organization (WHO) submitted at the World Health Assembly in 1955 an ambitious proposal for the eradication of malaria worldwide. Eradication efforts began and focused on house spraying with residual insecticides, antimalarial drug treatment, and surveillance, and would be carried out in 4 successive steps: preparation, attack, consolidation, and maintenance. Successes included eradication in nations with temperate climates and seasonal malaria transmission. Some countries such as India and Sri Lanka had sharp reductions in the number of cases, followed by increases to substantial levels after efforts ceased. Other nations had negligible progress (such as Indonesia, Afghanistan, Haiti, and Nicaragua). Some nations were excluded completely from the eradication campaign (most of sub-Saharan Africa). The emergence of drug resistance, widespread resistance to available insecticides, wars and massive population movements, difficulties in obtaining sustained funding from donor countries, and lack of community participation made the long-term maintenance of the effort untenable. Completion of the eradication campaign was eventually abandoned to one of control. cdc.gov Lie number 2. DDT is not banned for controlling disease vectors. The future public health uses of DDT are safeguarded by a "DDT exemption" written into the treaty. That exemption: (1) restricts DDT use and production to disease vector control only (not agriculture); (2) requires countries using DDT to follow WHO guidelines for disease vector control; (3) requires countries to notify WHO if they use DDT; (4) requires rich countries to pay the "agreed incremental costs" of more expensive alternatives to DDT (this is located elsewhere in the treaty); and (5) encourages rich countries to support research and development of alternatives to DDT; and having said this, what the treaty does NOT require is equally important: (1) it does NOT require a country to notify WHO before it sprays DDT, so in an epidemic a country may spray first and report to WHO later; (2) it does NOT require a country to obtain WHO's approval at any time; (3) it does NOT require poor countries to bear the added cost of alternatives to DDT; (4) it does NOT set a deadline by which countries must stop using or producing DDT; and (5) it does NOT restrict DDT use to malaria control, but allows for controlling any vector-borne disease. malaria.org So, the article is total bullshit. A substance you are intimately familiar with. I await your apology.