Posted on 07/18/2022 9:11:53 AM PDT by rktman
I am glad to be alive after a bout with dengue fever. But many across the world are not so fortunate. More than 4000 die each year due to dengue, a severe mosquito-borne disease.
It all began 10 days ago with intense fever. My body consistently clocked above 102 degrees Fahrenheit for 48 hours. Then followed severe pain in every part of the body. Once the fever and aching subsided, the second phase of the struggle began, with the blood platelet count falling dramatically.
Often, as in my case, the blood platelet count recovers on its own slowly. But in case of mismanagement, as the World Health Organization (WHO) reports, some people develop “complications associated with severe bleeding, organ impairment and/or plasma leakage.” In the worst cases, it results in death.
Contrary to expectation, the prevalence and incidence of cengue has increased in recent decades.
WHO says, “the number of dengue cases reported to WHO increased over 8 fold over the last two decades, from 505,430 cases in 2000, to over 2.4 million in 2010, and 5.2 million in 2019. Reported deaths between the year 2000 and 2015 increased from 960 to 4032, affecting mostly younger age group.”
“Before 1970,” the report went on, “only 9 countries had experienced severe dengue epidemics. The disease is now endemic in more than 100 countries in the WHO regions of Africa, the Americas, the Eastern Mediterranean, South-East Asia and the Western Pacific.”
Why is there a dramatic increase when we have effective disease control mechanisms at our disposal? Because the application of those solutions has been hindered by environmental movements.
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I remember chasing the DDT Jeep and playing in the fog. That was the 50s.
Banning the use of DDT specifically targets brown skinned children... just pointing out an obvious fact.
So many people have suffered and died needlessly by banning a safe and effective product.
Despite almost all of what Rachel Carson wrote being debunked soon after “Silent Spring” was published, she gained huge fame from the book and lived comfortably in her nice suburban home in wealthy Montgomery County MD, while millions suffered and died in the third world from malaria.
Two good articles here:
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2007/05/rachel_carson_and_the_deaths_o.html
https://junkscience.com/100-things-you-should-know-about-ddt/
Thanks. Bet the kiddos don’t hear any mention of that in school.
I had a similar experience growing up back in the 1970s. Right around the time school let out for the summer, our city would send fog trucks through the neighborhoods spraying for mosquitoes with DDT. In fact, I can still remember the smell.
It worked too. We could sit out on our porches at night and play in the yards without getting chewed up by those infernal things. Of course, they shut those down long ago, the result being that going out into your yard to cook some hamburgers is like going into the deep woods of New Hampshire. Everybody is slapping themselves silly and hankering to get back indoors.
Same here. Went to Dale Mabry Elementary.
Mothers in Appalachia dosed their children with a teaspoon of DDT to kill worms in their gut. A song from the period, up until the mid 60’s was: “Ain’t no flies on Jesus ‘cause He’s sprayed with DDT!” It was widely considered a salvation pesticide. Harmless and cheap.
Lyndon Johnson had it banned as a sop to the enviro crowd, especially the racist Carson to assuage racists who opposed Civil Rights laws. This insured the death of minority children. That same racist policy persists to today with the same evil results.
We did that too, back in the 50s.
Rachel Carson has been responsible for 250,000,000 deaths. She leads the pack in death responsibility and it grows EVERY SINGLE YEAR>
Tony faunocchio say “Hold my chablis!”
He ain’t no where close to 250 million deaths yet.
Glad you added “yet”. Of course rachel has a few years lead so.............
Like a bunch of you guys, I would run down the street chasing after “the bug man” along with most of the other kids on my street. But that isn’t the most important bit. The most important bit is that that stuff settled everywhere. Everybody in my town lived in that stuff all summer long. And if there were any adverse effects from it, we never got wind of it.
Now mosquito-borne diseases are the single leading cause of premature death on the planet.
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