It was also never banned for mosquito control. It was banned from agriculture where its overuse weakened its function as a public health intervention, bred resistance, and created ecologic harm from it’s extreme persistence in ecosystems. It’s still used today for malaria ppx.
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I am with your nuanced a detailed argument, just I am not that fully convinced as MH that no damage at all was done by the activism of first world environmentalist zealots. Anti GMO campaigns do that damage currently. RTS,S to the rescue - we all hope.
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The Venn diagram of people who assert that agricultural use of DDT should not have been banned, and antivaxers, is very close to a single circle.
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That is a cheap and unnecessary slur. I‘m pretty sure there is very little overlap, as antivaxxer are afraid of all things „chemical“.
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