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2008-01-20 Science & Technology

Let your blood poison the Mosquitoes that bite you!

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Posted by 3dc 2008-01-20 02:30|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Why bother. DDT works just fine.

Posted by phil_b 2008-01-20 03:04|| 2008-01-20 03:04|| Front Page Top

#2 THe best way to control malaria is to use DDT and develop a poison who causes death in any green who bites you.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-01-20 03:24|| 2008-01-20 03:24|| Front Page Top

#3 It may work if all living creatures could be vaccinated. Or if some kind of trap could be laid that would trick the mosquito into biting the trap instead of a live animal.

Or you could do like they did in Panama and oil all the stagnant water puddles.

Posted by gorb 2008-01-20 03:40|| 2008-01-20 03:40|| Front Page Top

#4 I grew up with DDT, and it is awesome other than the pungent odor it gives off. It was banned after Rachel Carson published her alarmist agit prop: "Silent Spring." Later she refused to explain the tens of millions of Africans and Asians who perished because they couldn't get DDT.

Posted by McZoid 2008-01-20 06:26|| 2008-01-20 06:26|| Front Page Top

#5 Aedes aegypti

HISS

Posted by Fly Ash Liberation Army 2008-01-20 11:00|| http://www.phoenix-federation.net]">[http://www.phoenix-federation.net] 2008-01-20 11:00|| Front Page Top

#6 A year before Silent Spring came out, Daddy had a contract for producing a chemical he'd invented that greatly increased DDT's effectiveness as much lower levels. Apparently he made pots of money and enabled the killing of lots of malaria-bearing mosquitoes for that one year. He subsequently gave up in disgust, turning to finding a cure for cancer.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2008-01-20 11:21|| 2008-01-20 11:21|| Front Page Top

#7 A couple points that always get overlooked when people start ranting about DDT:

- we were over-applying it; sprinkling it around like holy water so much that critters like birds higher up the food chain were accumulating harmful concentrations. That was not a smart way to use it.

- We didn't just spray chemicals to fight malaria and yellow fever. We also put up window screens, drained standing water and in general, made life harder for mosquitos.

Posted by SteveS 2008-01-20 14:13|| 2008-01-20 14:13|| Front Page Top

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