This piece is nothing more than a hack regurgitation of W.H.O. anti-population propaganda; there is an easy way to disprove this so-called immunity of mutated mosquitoes and that is to test-spray a large colony, but regulations disallow it.
I'm waiting for someone to tell me that certain pathogen-bearing insects have developed an immunity to sledge hammers and cowboy boots and I don't want to see any photoshopped pics of armored cockroaches.
Bring back DDT. It was great entertainment for us neighborhood kids who would run behind the DDT truck as it drove through the streets emitting it's mystical fog.
I also miss mirex, chlordane, and a few other pesticides that were deemed evil over the years, and taken off the market.
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www.junkscience.com/malaria_clock.htm
www.junkscience.com/ddtfaq.htm
This one is not just theoretical; it can and might easily affect YOU.
They're talking about possible quarantines in the event of an avian flu outbreak. In real life, birds don't bite people and most people don't eat bird shit. The most major way that diseases cross from rats or birds to people is via mosquitos, and the ultimate cure for everything in the world like that is DDT. They all but had malaria, polio, and everything else like that wiped off the planet in 1957 and that was too good for the idiots.
There are people who fell into vats of DDT in the 50s still walking around, and one guy who used to eat the stuff to demonstrate its safety who's still walking around. Everybody who survived the nazi death camps was sprayed with DDT to keep them from dying of typhous, and nobody was harmed by it.
Moreover, a buddy of mine actually studied under Heinz Meng, America's most major ornithologist and expert on raptors, and the man who returned peregrins to NY, DC, Philly and Baltimore, and HE said the whole thing about DDT harming birds was BS. Raptors were mainly being killed by farmers with shotguns in those days. After they outlawed that, they came back.
By banning use of DDT, thousands have died of malaria all over the world and millions are infected.