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Malaria deaths in India under-reported? Bad news for pro-DDT partisans
Good news from the war on malaria has been that annual deaths are calculated to be fewer than 1 million annually, as low as 880,000 a year — the lowest human death toll from malaria in human history....
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Lancet special issue on malaria eradication: No call for more DDT
Lancet is one of the premiere research journals in the world for all of science, but especially for issues of health and medicine. Image from Lancet On October 29, 2010, Lancet published a special...
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BBC News – Malaria ‘cannot be eradicated’
BBC report: Experts say control, not eradication of malaria (short advertisement precedes news video): BBC News – Malaria ‘cannot be eradicated’, posted with vodpod More, and resources: Map from The...
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Mandy Moore Talks Mosquito Nets – ABC News
Don’t ask me what work she’s done, because I couldn’t tell you. I can tell — based on the headlines of the clipping services — that Mandy Moore is popular. Ironically, in her brief tour of Africa and...
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President’s Malaria Initiative: Plans for FY 2011
Barack Obama continued George W. Bush’s Africa-oriented fight against malaria. The President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI)continues to target malaria for control and, if possible, eradication. PMI...
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World Blog – The race to contain drug-resistant malaria
NBC News’s World Blog carried a series on malaria and fighting it around the world. Here’s part I: PAILIN, Cambodia – The border crossing between Thailand and Cambodia at Pailin has a rather bleak...
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George Clooney’s malaria? DDT didn’t cure it
Not sure why, but pro-DDT sites have been harping about George Clooney’s having contracted malaria, a second time, while performing one of his humanitarian acts in southern Sudan. George Clooney in...
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Annals of Hoaxes: American Enterprise Institute sends out hoax backgrounder...
How do hoaxes get started? The self-proclaimed august American Enterprise Institute issued a “backgrounder” today on foreign trade. Backgrounder #2509, written by James Roberts. The first paragraph is...
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A fungus to fight malaria?
From a report in The Scientist Daily today: Researchers have engineered transgenic fungi that drill into mosquitoes and kill the malaria parasite inside — the first tool of its kind — a February 25,...
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Anecdotal evidence: Malaria spreads to Tanzania highlands, warming climate...
Here’s one story that critics of science and scientists who study global warming will try to avoid mentioning: Malaria’s spread in Tanzania appears to be due to deforestation plus a warming climate...
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Heritage Foundation urges that Africa be poisoned
Oh, not outwardly anti-Africa, but stupidly so. The extreme right-wing Heritage Foundation lashed out at health care workers and scientists fighting malaria in Africa and Asia for World Malaria Day,...
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DDT “costly for Uganda”
To aid researchers looking for news from Africa on malaria and DDT, I’ll reproduce the entire news story from Uganda’s New Vision here. Stories from this outlet frequently trouble me, in the...
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Poisoning the children: Study shows mothers give DDT to their children from...
Too many in the U.S. bury their heads in the sands about the issues, but researchers in Spain and Mozambique wondered whether indoor residual spraying (IRS) with DDT, to fight malaria-carrying...
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Somalia crisis partly caused by global warming?
Is the Somalia drought caused by global warming, even partly? Voice of America reports, with Rebecca Ward (can’t find the “non-autoplay” button in the HTML; see the thing below the fold): English –...
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Sideshow of DDT and malaria
Not exactly a DDT/Malaria carnival. Just enough for a sideshow. First, the controversy over use of DDT in Uganda continues, even as DDT is applied daily there. This demonstrates that DDT remains...
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Fighting malaria with indoor use of insecticides, with USAID money
Short video demonstrating the Indoor Residual Spraying program in Mali, financed by funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Note there is no ban on DDT, note that fighting...
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Because Obama opposes them, Limbaugh endorses terrorists and murderers
There may be no better demonstration of how the blind, unthinking and unfounded hatred of Barack Obama has skewed the rationality of conservatives than Rush Limbaugh’s endorsement of the war criminals,...
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A turn of the page of history: “When will Arabs awaken?”
I just stumbled across this photograph, taken in October 2010, in Sirte, Libya, at the opening of the “Second Arab-African Summit.” 2nd Arab-African Summit, Sirte, Libya, October 2010 One source...
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DDT news: Ethio Sun reports, “Ethiopia and Botswana in banned DDT pesticide...
How many hoax claims of Steven Milloy, Roger Bate and other DDT advocates are exposed in this one news story? Somebody count. The story reveals African nations still use DDT. There’s a lot of DDT in...
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World Malaria Report 2012: Malaria still declining, but more resources needed...
Significant gains against malaria could be lost because funding for insecticide-treated bednets has dropped, and malaria parasites appear to be developing resistance to the pharmaceuticals used to...
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