Sunday, June 24, 2007

Its Ban May Have Killed Twenty Million Children



Did you know that the banning of DDT probably caused twenty million child deaths from malaria? Read about it here in the latest issue of National Geographic.
Via Finestkind Clinic and fish market
Color-synthesizing scanning electron microscope image by David Scharf

1 comment:

Rita Loca said...

As one who has had malaria 5 times, as well as Dengue Fever, and have treated patients and lost patients and friends to malaria, this has angered me for years!!
More people die annually from malaria, which is preventable, than from AIDS.