NY Times:
W.H.O. Rules May Increase DDT Use for Malaria. The knee-jerk reaction, which I used to share in, would be to condemn this immediately. Further reading, done the last time this subject came up, seems to indicate this use of DDT is relatively safe, with little exposure of nature and humans to the negative aspects of DDT. The safety or danger is in the application. I hope they begin monitoring women and children for long-term effects immediately, in concert with this. The scientific consensus seems to be that it will save many more lives than it might harm.
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