Comments on: Dengue fever, DDT and global warming myths

By: bellavida369

bellavida369 — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 16:25:33 +0000

“joe said,
in August 6th, 2008 at 11:59 am

If global warming is hooey, why is it getting worse and warmer and more noticeable in everyday lives??”

It would be more clearly defined as ‘man-made global warming’ is hooey, which I also agree with.

By: BOBBY E. CORPUS

BOBBY E. CORPUS — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 03:48:03 +0000

Let other countries solve there problem of malaria by using DDT. That is my own opinion. When I arrived here in Uganda, there were three question mostly they asked from me what we are doing in the Philippines. They are, how we eradicate malaria, how to stop Aids and the problem of drainage. I am not a doctor but I impart to them my opinion. That malaria can be eradicated by spraying DDT. AIDS can be controlled by circumsision and drainage problem can be solved by not using plastic bags.
Maybe we are of the same age of Dr. Nancy Reyes. I was about 7 yrs old when all the houses in Aroroy, Masbate were sprayed with DDT. We recieved by sacks of grasshopper, fried and eated them after removing the wings, feet and stomach. It is crispy and delicious. We are ignorant about the harm of DDT to our body. With my friends in Masbate, we are still alive and kicking after eating the grasshopper sprayed with DDT.
Way back 1990, I was on a passenger boat bound to Manila from Cebu for my trip to Uganda. I met a military personnel coming from Palawan, told me that he sufferred before a Cerebral Malaria and that it is not also good to drink a water without boiling for it can cause maliaria. Believe me I did not sleep on board and was about to cancel my trip to Uganda.
In Atlas Consolidated Mining & Dev Corp where I worked before. Most of us were afraid when there were engineers coming from Palawan admitted in the hospital with Malaria.
Here in Uganda, I sufferred so many times of Malaria desease. My wife got sick of malaria and typhoid fever.
Whenever I am in the Philippines and ask from the drugstore for malaria tablet, they dont have it. Believe it or not, sometimes the saleslady doesnt not know what is Chloroquine, Quinine or Metakelfine.
Before I came to Africa, malaria is just a word to me and not a desease. In the Philippines to examine malaria will take about 3 hours. Here in Uganda about 30 minutes only.

By: Ed Darrell

Ed Darrell — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 23:00:18 +0000

“I don’t know. None of these articles discuss the possibiity that the increase of Dengue, like the increase of Malaria, is due to the pull back of using DDT to control the vectors.”

That’s because DDT withdrawal is not a significant factor. First, DDT was never formally “pulled back” from use outside Europe and the U.S. — it’s still manufactured in grotesque quantities in China and India — and formal bans on usage affected only Europe and North America prior to 2001 and the Persistent Organic Pesticides Treaty (POPs). POPs has a special carve out for DDT — it’s available for use if nothing else works.

DDT simply isn’t the solution of choice. Mosquitoes that carry diseases became significantly resistant or immune to DDT by the middle 1960s (the real reason its use was stopped outside the U.S. and Europe).

The best way to stop the spread of dengue is to catch the human vectors and keep them from being bitten by the vector mosquitoes when they travel. Air travel is a key factor in the spread of dengue over the last 30 years.

Plus, DDT wouldn’t be the pesticide of choice against these species.

By: joe

joe — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:59:43 +0000

If global warming is hooey, why is it getting worse and warmer and more noticeable in everyday lives??

By: David Dalton

David Dalton — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 18:24:29 +0000

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By: king

king — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 16:25:13 +0000

global warming is hooey. dont believe it