Friday, January 07, 2005

FOXNews.com - Views - Junk Science - President Could Help Tsunami Victims With Stroke of Pen

FOXNews.com - Views - Junk Science - President Could Help Tsunami Victims With Stroke of Pen: "The ongoing malaria catastrophe with its death toll in the millions has not, and in all likelihood, will not, likely get even a fraction of the media coverage devoted to the recent tsunamis - even though its costs are orders of magnitude higher.
Fighting malaria by promoting the use of DDT is not nearly as glamorous as publicly pledging millions in tsunami aid or photo-ops in devastated areas - advocating DDT, unfortunately, takes much political courage. But that would be just about the only cost incurred for an effort to save millions of lives and livelihoods."

Those in the area of the tsunami will be at great risk from malaria according to most things I hear. What a tragedy that millions of preventable deaths are occuring. DDT should never have been banned.

1 comment:

Sherry said...

Thanks so much for your common sense messages! Hope that you don't mind that I posted one of your blogs on my site.

Sister Smith