5/13/2023 0 Comments Silent spring authorWhile it was reasonable to have banned DDT for agricultural use, it was unreasonable to have eliminated it from public health use. Since the mid 1970s, when DDT was eliminated from global eradication efforts, tens of millions of people have died from malaria unnecessarily: most have been children less than five years old. By 1960, due largely to DDT, malaria had been eliminated from eleven countries, including the United States. The actual side effects of DDT, he writes, are nowhere near as bad as the effects of malaria.Īlthough DDT soon became synonymous with poison, the pesticide was an effective weapon in the fight against an infection that has killed - and continues to kill - more people than any other: malaria. While he believes DDT should’ve been banned for agricultural use, Offit says DDT should never have been banned from public health use.
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