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To: combjelly who wrote (924557)	3/5/2016 1:28:29 PM
From: Taro	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573957

It never went away, true. Still used at very localized places as well as for impregnation of mosquito nets. But that's not what we are talking about here. Just watch all those village and city wide spraying action on TV currently, what they spray has little if any effect on the mosquitos carrying the Zika virus. Most likely, however, not good for the humans living there. As for DDT, enormous amounts of money was spent long ago trying to prove, that it was a health hazard to humans and nobody still could prove any of the sort. Sure enough, it could be shwon, that it got absorbed and stored in the fatty parts of human body, but still, no harm to man from that. Eventually the only argument to be found against the wide use of DDT: Some bald eagle egg shells got thinner, so save the eagles - and let millions of 3rd world kids die from Malaria. Great! /Taro