How many Singaporeans knew that the regular "FOGGING for mosquitos using chemicals" is harmful for a human

Question

especially the baby? did you try to ask to the agent conducting this exercise? nor the agent itself knew this ? did any agency try to explain to the public? do you think the mosquito stupid,and really die?did the public benefits the result ? or maybe we never notice the air we breath is not chemicals free. do you think as a citizen do we have right to do something about it? maybe you have idea of other way beside fogging ?

Answer 1

Ok... Lets think for a second.... Malaria and 1 out of 2 kids dying and a 3rd world country.... or a little bit of chemicals and being rich in the economic center of southeast asia...oh yeah.... and you get to live past 50!  

This is a hard one...

Answer 2

...don't go out in the spray...it settles ...its safer than malaria...and a mosquito can be killed whether stupid or smart...apparently they are smarter than some people

Answer 3

just think about it the fogging is being done to KILL the mosquito,if it will kill the mosquito than it will kill beneficial insects also,and will have long term effects on other none target animals and birds.There are anti-malaria drugs available for people,sleep under a mosquito tent,keep screen doors and windows in good repair,eliminate standing water sites like tires and other debris that provide mosquito larvae breeding grounds.Remember that the chemicals we put into the environment get into the food chain.Fogging can help but must be done sparingly and at proper times at peak mosquito population times.

Answer 4

http://www.healthunit.com/sectionList.as...

The healthunit is of course fighting West NIle virus and has been using pellets dropped into only stagnant water. It has the effect of killing larvae of mosquitoes.

In Ontario, of course we get periods of dry weather that means our mosquitoes are dependent on a combination of stagnant water and sometimes tall grass that stays wet. We  still have large areas of forest that we are getting no larvae killed in this way. Yet the incidence of West nile infections has dropped of in all areas, not just those with larval poisoning.

Our health units chose to use larvaecides  rather than fogging because of public pressure against fogging. But we do not have malaria problems.

We still make it a point to avoid leaving water around that mosquitoes breed in, but then there are ponds that undo the effort if one has to go near them.

Immunity to diseases carried by mosquitoes would be our best defense if we could accomplish iit.