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'''Malaria''' is a tropical [[disease]] spread by the [[mosquito]]. The best way to eradicate malaria is by using an [[insecticide]] called [[DDT]]. <ref>"Sprayed just once or twice a year on the walls of houses, this powerful repellant keeps most mosquitoes from entering; irritates those that do come in, so they don't bite; and kills any that land." [http://www.aim.org/guest_column/5456_0_6_0_C/ Pro-malaria forces resurface at WHO] - Paul Driessen - May 15, 2007 - [[Accuracy in Media]] </ref> | '''Malaria''' is a tropical [[disease]] spread by the [[mosquito]]. The best way to eradicate malaria is by using an [[insecticide]] called [[DDT]]. <ref>"Sprayed just once or twice a year on the walls of houses, this powerful repellant keeps most mosquitoes from entering; irritates those that do come in, so they don't bite; and kills any that land." [http://www.aim.org/guest_column/5456_0_6_0_C/ Pro-malaria forces resurface at WHO] - Paul Driessen - May 15, 2007 - [[Accuracy in Media]] </ref> | ||
Unfortunately for sub-Saharan Africans and some Asians, the U.S. ban on DDT has made this cheap and safe chemical very difficult to obtain. This led to a renewed [[malaria epidemic]], and more than one million people die of malaria every year. | Unfortunately for sub-Saharan Africans and some Asians, the U.S. ban on DDT has made this cheap and safe chemical very difficult to obtain. This led to a renewed [[malaria epidemic]], and more than one million people die of malaria every year. | ||
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| + | There is a controversy over malaria eradication. While most Americans are in favor of relieving third-world people of the scourge of preventable disease, several prominent Westerners oppose anything that would lead to increases in population (see [[population control]]). | ||
| + | *[[Club of Rome]] founder [[Alexander King]] said, "My chief quarrel with DDT in hindsight is that it greatly added to the population problem." | ||
| + | *Oceanographer [[Jacques Cousteau]] told Novelle Observateur, "In order to stabilize world populations, we must eliminate 350,000 people a day." [http://www.aim.org/guest_column/5456_0_6_0_C/] | ||
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Revision as of 10:09, May 21, 2007
Malaria is a tropical disease spread by the mosquito. The best way to eradicate malaria is by using an insecticide called DDT. [1] Unfortunately for sub-Saharan Africans and some Asians, the U.S. ban on DDT has made this cheap and safe chemical very difficult to obtain. This led to a renewed malaria epidemic, and more than one million people die of malaria every year.
There is a controversy over malaria eradication. While most Americans are in favor of relieving third-world people of the scourge of preventable disease, several prominent Westerners oppose anything that would lead to increases in population (see population control).
- Club of Rome founder Alexander King said, "My chief quarrel with DDT in hindsight is that it greatly added to the population problem."
- Oceanographer Jacques Cousteau told Novelle Observateur, "In order to stabilize world populations, we must eliminate 350,000 people a day." [1]
References
- ↑ "Sprayed just once or twice a year on the walls of houses, this powerful repellant keeps most mosquitoes from entering; irritates those that do come in, so they don't bite; and kills any that land." Pro-malaria forces resurface at WHO - Paul Driessen - May 15, 2007 - Accuracy in Media