[asa] Correction on malaria

I almost hate to say it but Pim and I are on the same page on CFC's.

Thanks Pim.

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James Mahaffy (mahaffy@dordt.edu)          Phone: 712 722-6279
498 4th Ave NE
Biology Department                                     FAX :  712
722-1198
Dordt College, Sioux Center IA 51250-1697
>>> On 2/6/2007 at 11:40 AM, in message
<20070206174137.576D971206E@gray.dordt.edu>, PvM
<pvm.pandas@gmail.com>
wrote
> I now realize that there is not just the global warming myth but
that
> people are also under false impressions about DDT and Ozone.
> 
> For instance, DDT is still recommended for use but rather that use
it
> for indiscriminate crop dusting which was a major cause for
mosquitos
> gaining immunity against DDT, the policies ask for a more careful
use
> of DDT. The myth that DDT was banned and caused millions of deaths
in
> the form of malaria seems to be a persistent one.
Actually Pim that is true.  Many of the African countries either had
banned it or were 
being pressured to.  It is only recently that the consensus is that
dusting DDT in houses
would save more lives than its environmental impact and some African
countires have returned to it. 
I have had malaria and lived in Africa until I came back to
college.[snip rest of the post - I have not read the secondary sources
yet and probably will not.  However, I have read some of them on ozone
depletion.
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