How many millions of people have died from malaria due to DDT being banned?

Question

DDT (the most effective mosquito control agent ever created) was banned because it was supposed to be harmful to animals, but the link was never proved. So in it's absence, how many millions of people, especially in Aftrica, have died from malarie because they did not have access to this agent?

Answer 1

Go to http://www.thermoguy.com and scroll down to the picture of the fetus where you can click on the study of polluted newborns.

How does a baby that has never taken a breath have banned pesticides inside them? Mom is drinking and eating it because it is in our global waterways. The fetus doesn't have the ability to protect itself so it means cancer and a death sentence from conception. The toxicity ratio in the newborns was 100%.

Everything we produce comes back at us, think about who lives upstream from you before you think toxins are okay in any form.

Answer 2

The fact that DDT has been even thought to be connected to any illnesses in animals or humans, it should be considered an unsafe product. DDT is still used around the world however, and  despite this, many people in developing countries still die of malaria and dengue fever and other diseases which mosquitoes are the vectors for.

One thing most people don't remember is that not all mosquitoes can be killed by a pesticide. Just like some humans are resistant to a specific virus, some mosquitoes are resistant to a pesticide. The non-resistant mosquitoes die out and then you will have a population full of resistant mosquitoes who are multiplying and even though DDT may still be being sprayed, nothing will happen.

It's happened in several countries and because of this more mosquito carried disease awareness groups are suggesting people use bed nets and use insecticide very rarely.

Anyway, the answer to your question is that despite DDT being used or being banned, many people in developing countries die of malaria anyway. You can connect escalated numbers to DDT being banned, but these numbers probably aren't in the many millions.

Answer 3

Many countries have lifted the DDT ban but its use is strongly discouraged by environmentalists and aid agencies.  Part of the agenda behind the anti-DDT campaign was to reduce the population of Africa through the spread of disease.  In the 1960s, World Health Organization authorities believed there was no alternative to the so-called "overpopulation problem" but to assure than up to 40 percent of the children in poor nations would die of malaria. As an official of the Agency for International Development stated, "Rather dead than alive and riotously reproducing."

It is estimated that since DDT was banned in 1972, more than 96 million people have died of malaria, a disease that had almost been eradicated in the 1960s.

Answer 4

500 mln get ill every year; more than 1 mln dies every year; malaria is spread in 106 countries- mostly developing ones. In Africa every fifth child dies from malaria.

Answer 5

from my understanding DDT is still used in Central America and in many other 3rd World countries for the control of mosquitoes.Check out the DDT web site I just did and DDT is still widely used in 3rd World countries so get your facts straight before you vent know what your talking about.

Answer 6

Banned? I used it on my last trip to malaysia