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- stevebee, on 11/14/2009, -3/+15Allow them to use DDT. When you spray a tiny amount around the house it kills the mosquitoes. Costs almost nothing.
- qwertasdf12, on 11/14/2009, -1/+10Malaria was nearly extinct before the UN bowed to the anti-insecticide lobby.
- toxicshok, on 11/14/2009, -0/+7It wouldn't be a long term solution. It only takes a couple of years for DDT resistance to emerge, and in areas like south asia it already has.
- elliotys, on 11/14/2009, -1/+5Unfortunately anti-virals (other than valtrex) and anti-biotics are not very profitable. The drug companies don't want to invest billions to make a drug that will inevitably lose them money. I don't really blame them for this. Thats why we need government incentives and government funded research to find new ones (I'm sure this scares the hell out of the anti-big government people). It really is something that everybody should be worried about, not scared *****, but a healthy level of worry is warranted.
- elliotys, on 11/14/2009, -0/+4While they may be expensive, they are generally only used short term, while lots of other expensive medications for HTN, diabetes, CVD, etc. . .Once initiated are usually used for life.
- sb66, on 11/14/2009, -4/+7Agreed, let them use DDT. In his book State of Fear, Michael Crichton estimates that 50 MILLION people have died unnecessarily since the prohibition of DDT.
Banning DDT has also led to a huge rise in bedbug infestations in north american cities. - dsmx, on 11/14/2009, -4/+7Without DDT the panama canal would never of been built. However it builds up in the food chain and is toxic to all life including humans.
- schnikies79, on 11/14/2009, -0/+3I take it you have priced Zyvox or Vancomycin lately.
We spend close $2000/30 on Zyvox, from the warehouse. - hawkspur, on 11/14/2009, -0/+3Yeah, ***** curing diseases that kill millions of people.
- 1hrSleep, on 11/14/2009, -0/+3God's way, huh?
- scyphozoa, on 11/14/2009, -1/+4Malaria is no joke :(
- georgelulu, on 11/14/2009, -0/+2If the solution is more drugs then no. Malaria is not like smallpox, it doesn't vanish from existence in nature if you treat everybody.
- HuangFeng, on 11/15/2009, -0/+2The article is about malaria parasite resistance to anti malarial drugs, not mosquito resistance to pesticides.
Once you have malaria, using DDT ... would not be wise :) - stevebee, on 11/15/2009, -0/+2Every time they run what seems to be cancer level increases against things like increased age, the "increases" in cancer disappear.
Also, we know now that much much smaller levels of DDT are effective in killing mosquitoes in the home.
Anyway, it shouldn't be OUR decision. Ask Cambodians, would you rather eradicate malaria NOW and risk a fractional increase in cancer 20 years from now? - AlyxVance, on 11/14/2009, -0/+1absolutely
- rignopolis, on 11/14/2009, -0/+1http://mises.org/story/2236
- sb66, on 11/14/2009, -0/+1please to stop spamming. Thank you come again.
- JohnnySoftware, on 11/16/2009, -0/+1God will never run out of ways to tell us that.
- jster89, on 11/15/2009, -0/+1Sounds good but not true. DDT's insecticide properties were discovered in 1939 and the panama canal opened in 1914.
Source: Wiki DDT and Panama canal - stevebee, on 11/14/2009, -0/+1Maybe not.
- jster89, on 11/14/2009, -0/+1He says most... I'd say some. But more will be if you use DDT as you'll introduce a new selective pressure. You're not going to wipe out mosquitoes by using a single insecticide the same way you're not going to wipe out bacteria with a single antibiotic (or even many.)
- stevebee, on 11/15/2009, -0/+1Actually, you DO wipe out bacteria with a single antibiotic. In a single patient.
- V1ruk, on 11/15/2009, -1/+1HAHAHAHA! Spray DDT? Are you out of your ***** mind? Ever see the cancer levels increase since the 1950's?
They banned ***** like that for a reason.
No there is a much more effective anti-malaria solution, gin and tonics.
I DEMAND GIN AND TONICS FOR CAMBODIA! AND DECLARE IT DRUNK MONTH! By law, or you will be executed by means of malaria. - stevebee, on 11/14/2009, -1/+1If you say so.
- swantamer, on 11/15/2009, -1/+1Yes, because we have made too many people. As a result even more people will die awful deaths. Did you see the report yesterday (UN as I recall) that fully one billion people now face daily food scarcity? What part of the equation is tripping people like you up? Too many ***** people is a huge problem and the best thing to do is to push birth control hard and stop wasting $$$ trying to "save" people to just bredd more and compound the misery.
- toxicshok, on 11/14/2009, -4/+3and most mosquitoes are resistant to it.
- AlyxVance, on 11/14/2009, -2/+1use DDT.
I think the death a few bird hatchlings is worth the millions of lives saved from malaria. - swantamer, on 11/14/2009, -5/+2Malaria is protecting some of the very few truly wild places left on earth, the last thing any thinking person should want is to"cure" it. Malaria is God's way of telling us we have too many people and we are pushing to live in places we should leave alone. A better policy is birth control and pulling people back to reasonably dry areas where humans can comfortably live without poisoning the environment.
Wow, I just blew your mind away with common sense and now you have to bury me because humans are all that matter and nature is a force to be conquered. - burrdugg, on 11/14/2009, -8/+1Bring them marijuana, it will cure the dangerous new malaria strain. Taxing it will boost Cambodia's economy and turn it into a bigger superpower than the USA. This is the truth.
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