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To: Alighieri who wrote (373268)	3/9/2008 2:02:04 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1586714

"...but here's a sample of your ignorance." It has been pointed out before. To both him and Shorty. But, since neither one really traffics in reality...

To: Alighieri who wrote (373268)	3/9/2008 2:14:34 PM
From: steve harris	Respond to of 1586714

people continue to die because DDT is on the environmentalists' evil list igreens.org.uk Malaria continues to topple empires today, killing over one million people every year, mostly children and pregnant women. (As Dr. Wenceslaus Kilama, chairman of Malaria Foundation International, has said, the malaria epidemic "is like loading up seven Boeing 747 airliners each day, then deliberately crashing them into Mt. Kilimanjaro.") The number of deaths is increasing, especially in developing countries. Yet while these countries ought to have every method available to control this disease, political leaders and environmental groups recently came very close to banning an important weapon in the fight against malaria: DDT. In December 2000, international delegates and observers met in South Africa to negotiate the Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, a list of 12 chemicals, including DDT, which will soon be banned world-wide. Fifteen countries requested exemptions for their use of DDT in public-health programs-but even they will have to comply with the treaty's potentially onerous regulatory restrictions. In May, delegates from the United States and more than 100 other countries will meet in Stockholm, Sweden to sign the treaty, a legally binding instrument.