The recurring joke in science when the Ebola craze consumed American media was that all the wealthy elites in California, Oregon and Washington who denied vaccines due to concerns about autism, would make sure their families were first in line for a new vaccine.
While rich coastal parents knew they could avoid risk for their special snowflakes, while still protecting them from whooping cough (pertussis) by counting on herd immunity among the peasants, they knew that wouldn’t work against Ebola. And there is no herd immunity against the Zika virus, so lots and lots of activists who believe they are buying organic food “with no pesticides” are going to be absolutely slathering themselves in chemicals real soon.
Pyrethrin is one of several common toxic compounds that will work darn well against the Aedes aegypti mosquito that commonly carries the virus. As you can see below in pyrethrin I, it has a chemical structure (C21H28O3), which is enough to scare Vani Hari and Michael Pollan and others on the anti-science fringe. Even more terrifying, there are six biologically active chemicals in pyrethrins. Yikes. Unless you know anything about chemistry, anyway.....
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While rich coastal parents knew they could avoid risk for their special snowflakes, while still protecting them from whooping cough (pertussis) by counting on herd immunity among the peasants, they knew that wouldn’t work against Ebola. And there is no herd immunity against the Zika virus, so lots and lots of activists who believe they are buying organic food “with no pesticides” are going to be absolutely slathering themselves in chemicals real soon.
Pyrethrin is one of several common toxic compounds that will work darn well against the Aedes aegypti mosquito that commonly carries the virus. As you can see below in pyrethrin I, it has a chemical structure (C21H28O3), which is enough to scare Vani Hari and Michael Pollan and others on the anti-science fringe. Even more terrifying, there are six biologically active chemicals in pyrethrins. Yikes. Unless you know anything about chemistry, anyway.....
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