Doesn't it?
Doesn't anyone care about the birth defects possible from spraying DDT?
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Perhaps trading one potential, but still unproven, problem for another real problem?
Reproductive effects of occupational DDT exposure among male malaria control workers.
We found an increased risk of birth defects associated with high occupational exposure to DDT in this group of workers. The significance of this association at lower exposure levels found in the general population remains uncertain.
Since absent good evidence the Zika causes microcephaly, the virus is known to be harmless, so I wouldn't spray DDT.
Your link doesn't work.
Correlation does not prove causation.
I'll look into it.
Still, I would want to know if flu vaccination correlates since that is known to increase risk of microcephaly.
Do you have a citation to a study showing increased microencepathy and the flu vaccine?
It was already posted. Here it is again. The microcephaly risk is due to the mercury preservative that is only found in certain flu vaccines. The flu vaccine they were giving in Brazil as part of the vaccination campaign that may correlate with what we are seeing today is likely one that contains mercury since it was multiple strain and pregnant women were a focus of the campaign.
"likely one"? A bit of speculation?
Time to bring back DDT.
Doesn't anyone care about the birth defects possible from spraying DDT?
:idunno:
:thumb: yep, kills bedbugs too, they were once eradicated in America and seem to be a huge problem again in some cities now.
I do.
Rachel Carson made me a believer.
DDT - Silent Spring | |
Environmentalist Mythology, Part 1: Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring–Killing Us Softly Theirs is the disease you don’t hear about on the nightly news. Newspaper editorialists, too, are silent about the death toll from this ailment—nearly 9½ million people between 1999 and 2002, of which 8½ million were pregnant women or children under the age of five. No, the disease isn’t AIDS. It’s mosquito borne malaria, and we’ve had the means for wiping out this affliction for over a century. However, thanks to environmentalist mythology, the tool, DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane), has been banned in most countries worldwide. The ban on DDT, like the modern environmentalist movement itself, grew out of the book, Silent Spring, by Rachael Carson[1]. As almost any school child today can parrot, Carson claimed DDT thinned the eggs of birds. Pointing to a 1956 study by Dr. James DeWitt published in the Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry, Carson wrote: “Dr. DeWitt’s now classic experiments [demonstrate] that exposure to DDT, even when doing no observable harm to the birds, may seriously affect reproduction.” DeWitt, however, concluded no such thing. Indeed, he discovered in his study that 50% more eggs hatched from DDT fed quail than from those in the control group. |
Reproductive effects of occupational DDT exposure among male malaria control workers.
We found an increased risk of birth defects associated with high occupational exposure to DDT in this group of workers. The significance of this association at lower exposure levels found in the general population remains uncertain.
Since absent good evidence the Zika causes microcephaly, the virus is known to be harmless, so I wouldn't spray DDT.
my link works :banana: