DDT Ban

Almost a half billion people contract malaria each year. Over a million of them die. DDT is the most effective weapon against malaria. But it was banned. Was that decision based on faulty research?

• Fred Soper and the Global Malaria Eradication Programme
• Remembering Silent Spring and its Consequences
• DDT: A Case Study in Scientific Fraud
• 100 Things you should know about DDT
• DDT is Only Real Weapon to Combat Malaria
• The DDT Ban Turns 30 - Millions Dead of Malaria Because of Ban, More Deaths Likely
• DDT...A Second Look
• DDT Ban is Genocidal
• Green Hands Dipped In Blood: The DDT Genocide
• Science Does Not Justify Ban on DDT
• How Many Must Die?
• Banning DDT Does Not Make Sense
• Better Living Through Chemistry
• Mosquitoes, DDT, and Human Health
• Bald Eagle-DDT Myth Still Flying High
• Letter by U.S. Senator Tom Colburn to Council of the European Union
• Africa Fighting Malaria Responds To Berkeley University Study Into DDT And Neurodevelopment In Children
• The Most Infamous Pesticide in History is also the Most Effective Weapon Against Malaria. Ready or Not, DDT is on its Way Back to Africa.
• DDT and Neurodevelopment: Results Inconclusive to Effect Policy Change
• Sticking it to the Mosquitoes
• DDT Saves Lives. Will Europeans Act Accordingly?
• Dangers of Disinformation
• Statement on Pesticide Action Networks Advocacy to Undermine the Use of DDT in Malaria Control
• DDT Backlash Begins
• Dr. Conyers, I Presume
• Inconclusive Study on DDT has Potentially Mortal Consequences
• Rachel Carson's Alarmist Legacy
• Pro-Malaria Forces Resurface at WHO
• Fateful Voice of a Generation Still Drowns Out Real Science
• Fighting a Bigger Foe
• DDT Spray Scares Mosquitoes Away, Study Finds
• Properly Used, DDT Saves Lives
• A New Home for DDT
• DDT Backlash Continues
• Study Finds No Increased Risk of Breast Cancer from DDT and PCBs
• Drive to Increase DDT Use in Malaria War has Stalled
• 'Global Warming' as Pathological Science
• Africa Counts Greatest Successes Against Malaria
• Uganda: WHO Supports Spraying DDT
• Insecticide Spraying Needed To Control Yellow Fever In Paraguay And Brazil
• Nigeria: DDT and Malaria
• Facts versus Fears: DDT
• Indoor Residual Spraying and DDT
• Indoor Residual House Spraying (IRS): The Basics
• Indoor Residual Spraying
• Uganda: DDT Sprayed in Oyam
• How DDT can Stop Millions of Malaria Deaths

At least 80 percent of human infectious diseases are arthropod-borne—transmitted by insects, mites, or ticks. They have caused the death of hundreds of millions of people by infecting them with the pathogens that cause typhus, bubonic plague, yellow fever, malaria, dengue fever, sleeping sickness, encephalitis (such as West Nile virus), elephantiasis, leishmaniasis, Lyme disease and yaws. DDT is a miracle chemical compound that can protects millions of people from these deadly scourges. So why is DDT banned?

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