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Did Environmentalists Kill Millions Africa - Politics, Business, Civil, History - Posted: 31st Mar, 2008 - 7:07pm
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Did Environmentalists Kill Millions In Africa?
Briët, Olivier JT; Gawrie NL Galappaththy, Flemming Konradsen, Priyanie H Amerasinghe and Felix P Amerasinghe state in the Malaria Journal*
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In the period from 1934-1955 there were 1.5 million cases of malaria in Sri Lanka, resulting in 80,000 deaths. After the country invested in an extensive anti-mosquito program with DDT, there were only 17 cases reported in 1963. Thereafter the program was halted, and malaria in Sri Lanka rebounded to 600,000 cases in 1968 and the first quarter of 1969. |
Since the Banning of DDT (Dichloro-Diphenyl-Trichloroethane) millions of Africans have died each year due to Malaria. Did environmentalist kill these individuals because they banned DDT?
Or are the risks too high to continue to use the product because of environmental damage and Mosquito resistance to the chemicals in DDT?
* (2005). "Maps of the Sri Lanka malaria situation preceding the tsunami and key aspects to be considered in the emergency phase and beyond". Malaria Journal
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