Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: combjelly who wrote (418748)	9/21/2008 4:18:04 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574685

"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."

To: combjelly who wrote (418748)	9/21/2008 4:23:54 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1574685

"To only a few chemicals does man owe as great a debt as to DDT... In little more than two decades, DDT has prevented 500 million human deaths, due to malaria, that otherwise would have been inevitable." [National Academy of Sciences, Committee on Research in the Life Sciences of the Committee on Science and Public Policy. 1970. The Life Sciences; Recent Progress and Application to Human Affairs; The World of Biological Research; Requirements for the Future.]

To: combjelly who wrote (418748)	9/22/2008 3:39:08 PM
From: Taro	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574685

Links, Please. Believe you may be personally driven by your fright of low sperm count? Flight Colonel George C. Scott and his alleged fluoride water problem repeated I guess. Taro "Swaziland [landlocked between South Africa and Mozambique] continued to use DDT, and its malaria cases have remained very low." independent.co.uk "Nearly one million Indians died from malaria in 1945, but DDT spraying reduced this to a few thousand by 1960. " cei.org "Europe and North America have not harbored malarial mosquitoes since the 1940s. In one of the most miraculous public health developments in history, Greece saw malaria cases drop from 1-2 million cases a year to close to zero, also thanks to DDT. Meanwhile, in India, malaria deaths went from nearly a million in 1945 to only a few thousand in 1960. In what is now Sri Lanka, malaria cases went from 2,800,000 in 1948, before the introduction of DDT, down to 17 in 1964 then, tragically, back up to 2,500,000 by 1969, five years after DDT use was discontinued there." acsh.org