The Los Angeles Times hypes an alleged link between global warming and a rise in malaria in parts of Africa. It so happens that those areas don’t use a cure that the Times doesn’t mention DDT, says Investor’s Business Daily.
According to Times staff writer Edmund Sanders:
What isn’t mentioned in the Times piece is that Nairobi experienced malaria outbreaks all through the ’20s, ’30s and ’40s, before supposed warming was the culprit. Also missing is the fact that Kenya joined the worldwide hysteria against DDT in 1990 and outlawed the insecticide’s use. That ban, not global warming, has spawned the resurgence of malaria in Kenya’s cooler regions. Consider the following example:
Source: Editorial, DDT And Global Warming, Investor’s Business Daily, July 24, 2007.
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FMF Policy Bulletin/ 31 July 2007
