Roger Bate & Richard Tren | 01 Dec 2023 | South African Institute of International Affairs
Roger Bate and Richard Tren discuss the tragic toll of malaria and one highly effective solution, indoor residual spraying with DDT.
J. Gordon Edwards | 01 Sep 2023 | Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons
The chemical compound that has saved more human lives than any other in history, DDT, was banned by order of one man, the head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Public pressure was generated by one popular book and sustained by faulty or fraudulent research. Widely believed claimes of carcinogenicity, toxicity to birds, anti-androgenic properties, and prolonged environmental persistence are false or grossly exaggerated. The worldwide effect of the U.S. ban has been millions of preventable deaths.
Donald Roberts et al | 01 Jun 2023 | Emerging Infectious Disease
To the Editor: Malaria continues to cause disease and death in millions of persons living in areas of the world where it is endemic, despite 4 decades of research on vaccines, new drugs, and alternative methods of control. Still, by far the most effective method for reducing and controlling the impact of this disease is indoor residual spraying (IRS) of insecticides. The most cost-effective and safe insecticide has been, and in many instances still is, dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT). This intervention is continually under scrutiny, and we address these issues in this letter.
Roger Bate & Richard Tren | 25 Mar 2024 | Cato Institute
Roger Bate and Richard Tren discuss South Africa's success in controlling malaria using indoor residual spraying with DDT.
L. Conteh et al | 01 Jan 2024 | Tropical Medicine and International Health
Both these initiatives show that introducing an IRS programme can deliver a reduction in malaria-related suffering providing financial support, political will, collaborative management and training and community involvement are in place.
Donald Roberts et al | 01 Jul 2023 | Emerging Infectious Diseases
Malaria is reemerging in endemic-disease countries of South America. We examined the rate of real growth in annual parasite indexes (API) by adjusting APIs for all years to the annual blood examination rate of 1965 for each country.