Malaria

Ignore political correctness and great things can happen:

September 18, 2007, 16:30

Health minister, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, says cooperation between South Africa, Swaziland and Mozambique has led to a 90% reduction in new malaria infections in the three countries.

Tshabala-Msimang says this has been achieved through the use of Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT), an agent that kills the malaria-carrying mosquitoes. She was speaking at one of the commissions of the People's Assembly in Bizana, which was discussing the health situation in the country.

She says the reduction was achieved because of the countries' refusal to listen to those who preached against the use of DDT.

“… They wanted to tell us that we mustn't use DDT for indoor residual spraying because it destroys vegetables and… fauna and we just said, ‘Look in Europe they conquered malaria because they used DDT’… The Italians told us that, ‘Don't listen to what they are saying, we conquered malaria because we just killed the mosquitoes’ (sic),” said Tshabalala-Msimang.

One problem with the Warmist Whale-huggers is that once they make up their mind on something, the thinking process shuts down. DDT was declared bad so case closed. Never mind that the bad effects were seen in a time when DDT was often misused. Never mind that some of the reports from that time are suspect.

Every year now we have over one million deaths due to malaria. Malaria is the leading cause of death for children under five in Africa. Every 30 seconds a person dies from malaria.

But isn't DDT bad? No. No, it's not nearly as bad as malaria. A million deaths is bad. A 90% reduction of a million deaths would be wonderful. And eradication of malaria would be Christmas. Find out more here.

h/t: Junk Science