Covid Lies and the Human Consequences

By Rich Kozlovich

 

When the covid scare emerged I said it was scare mongering, and the stats were being manipulated, and we know they were.  There was no need for social distancing, masks, and a demand, .... demand mind you.... that everyone get the shots.  

 

Shots that were not vaccines, since they changed the definition for vaccines.  Heretofore forever a vaccine had to immunize you and prevent transmission.  These compound do neither, and worse yet, they're having a deadly impact on humanity, and there can be no Forgiveness For Covid Tyrants? Not in This Lifetime! Part III. 

I've stated over and over again the impact of these gene manipulating chemical compounds will be devastating to humanity for decades, and every week more information comes out to prove that to be true.  All the while there were effective alternatives the medical, academic, pharmaceutical industry, and the government lied about, and vaccine skeptics are the true critical thinkers.

 

 The Hydroxychloroquine Crime By Leo Goldstein  July 20, 2024 - More than four years ago, Democrat leaders colluded with the WHO (as part of the wannabe global government) and Big Tech to perpetrate a horrific crime: the denial of access to hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and other lifesaving COVID-19 treatments.  The primary purpose was to legalize fraud-ridden voting by mail and seize power following the 2020 elections.  Once in power, the perpetrators were able to cover up this crime even though it is ongoing.  The FDA continues to reject HCQ and the even less controversial ivermectin (IVM).  Instead, it pushes the harmful and dangerous quasi-vaccine. The number of direct deaths from COVID-19 has exceeded one million in the U.S. alone.  Almost all of these deaths could have been avoided using HCQ- or IVM-based treatment.  If not for the unusually mild omicron variant, the death count could be tens of millions.

Actress Patricia Heaton Rips ‘Fear-Mongering’ Media Election Coverage  We Need to Pray’ for Traumatized Head-Shaving Women -We must make public-health authorities accountable for their COVID lies .  The “public health” response to COVID has been awful. Ever since cases first appeared in Wuhan, the reaction has been marked by mistakes, reversals, outright lying and even political manipulation. We need a thorough accounting.

Mistakes are forgivable. In the early days, everything we knew came from the Chinese government, and while we now know that Beijing lies about everything, we knew less then. In fact, it not only lied about the disease’s origins, its nature and its spread, it kept the Wuhan airport open for weeks, allowing (deliberately?) the disease to take hold all over the planet before anyone else knew it was coming.....mistakes are inevitable and.... forgivable......... reversals aren’t necessarily bad. You make a decision based on what you know. Later you know more.......But lies and political manipulation are different. Those are a betrayal of trust, and they’re especially serious because trust is the public-health community’s greatest asset.  The record here has been terrible, and we need investigation and accountability.

Many years ago a worldwide outrage erupted over thalidomide, a drug given to pregnant women to help with morning sickness, however it caused birth defects.  How many children were impacted.  Less that 15,000, and it was a worldwide scandal.  These false vaccine genetically manipulating compounds is our thalidomide era, only it will negatively impact millions, and for decades to come, and we need to be outraged. 

1. Top Epidemiologist Sounds the Alarm as Insurance Data Exposes an “Excess Mortality Crisis” Among the Covid-Vaxxed
2. India Issues an Emergency Warning as Deaths Surge Among the Covid-Vaxxed
3. Child Heart Attack Surge Only Impacts Covid-Vaxxed Kids, Major Study Confirm
4. Canadian medical establishment confirms COVID jab caused young mother’s paralysis, offers euthanasia for ‘treatment’
5. Prominent Epidemiologist Says Data Proves COVID Lockdowns Failed, and Hurt Population
6. Killer Now That We Know What COVID-19 Did To Human Life 
7.  mRNA Vaccines Made You Sick Now They Want To Make You Sicker And Call It A Cure
   
8. FDA Admits Higher Risk of Seizures in Toddlers Shortly After Covid “Vaccination
9. Covid “Vaccine” Linked to Rare Neurological Disorder That Causes Pain, Muscle Atrophy, and Paralysis
10. Yes, Everyone Really Is Sick a Lot More Often After Covid
11. New Studies: Pfizer's Paxlovid doesn't actually work, 'rebound' symptoms occur 25x more often than advertised 

Fraud and lies, and someone.... actually a lot of someones.... need to go to jail over this.

1. Wall Street Journal Outlines How the Biden WH Buried COVID Origins Info They Didn't Like
2. EXCLUSIVE: As private citizen, Dr. Fauci received $15 million taxpayer-funded security detail
3.  It Wasn’t Just Birx
4. Bombshell Testimony Reveals WHO Pushed for COVID Vaccine Passports Despite Knowing They Were a Scam 
5.  Pfizer’s Secret Documents Reveal That Their Covid “Vaccine” Actually Made You 8.7% More Likely to Get Covid
6. Rand Paul: “Smoking Gun” Ties Flip-Flopping Fascist Fear Fuhrer Fauci to Wuhan Lab Creation of Covid
7. Earliest COVID-19 Vaccine Recipients Wrote in Tens of Thousands of Injuries Left Off CDC Survey
8. Pharmaceutical Narratives Surrounding the “Flu” Are Based on Fraud and Are Primarily Designed to Sell Worthless “Vaccines". 
9. Ex-CDC Director Admits “Long COVID” Is a Hoax Meant to Hide mRNA “Vaccine” Injuries
10. 8 Bombshell Findings in Florida’s Grand Jury Report on Big Pharma’s Covid Shots
11.  So the CDC knew all along about those 780,000 side effects to its COVID vaccine as it was assuring us it was 'safe'
12.  More proof that COVID killed medical ethics
13.  COVID origins, altered immune systems, and Q&A
14. Is justice coming for victims of COVID wrongful deaths? 
15. ‘Data-driven’ social distancing lie implodes—what next? 
16. Health Agency Knew Lockdowns Hurt More than COVID, Hid Info from Public.

What's really behind all of this?  Greed, financial corruption and a tyrannical worldwide system of governance under the auspices of the most corrupt and incompetent organization the world has ever known, the UN.  

1. Amidst Growing Resistance, the WHO Turns Up Heat on Members to Sign Pandemic Treaty .  
2. The World Health Organization is Creating a New ‘Pandemic Industry’: Philipp Kruse
3. Call WHO’S Coming “DISEASE X’ Whatever You Want, But Know That It’s A Pre-Planned 
4.  The WHO Really Does Want to Rule the World Member of European Parliament Warns of WHO Pandemic Treaty and International Health Regulations: ‘Democracy Will Be Sidelined’
5. Preparing for the Next Pandemic   
6. Concerns grow as ‘gigantic’ bird flu outbreak runs rampant in US dairy herds
7. Former CDC Director Predicts Bird Flu Virus Will Cause Next Pandemic

Why malaria returned to the USA

July 12, 2023 By Joe Alton, M.D.

What's the deadliest animal in the world?  A tiger?  A great white shark?  A poisonous snake?  Nope.  The most dangerous animal on Earth weighs about 2/1000 of a gram, is smaller than an M&M, and could be knocked silly by a raindrop.  It's the mosquito.

Mosquitoes, obviously, can't eat you the way a shark or tiger could.  They act as "vectors" for a number of diseases, one of which is malaria.  When a mosquito of the species Anopheles bites you, it extracts blood as a meal and leaves some of its saliva.  The saliva harbors any of a number of disease-causing organisms.  In the case of malaria, it's a single-celled parasite in the genus Plasmodium.  There were over 240 million cases of the disease (with 627,000 deaths) in 2020, almost all from mosquito bites.........To Read More....

My Take -As most of my readers know I owned a structural pest control company, and was heavily involved with my industry's affairs.  Many years ago I attended our National associations annual Legislative Day and listened to a lot of clabber from a panel of government experts from the EPA, the Dept. of Health, and some other agency about bed bug control, which was scourging the nation.  I got up and stated that the answer in 1946 was effective, inexpensive, readily available, easy to use chemistry, and if that's not the answer now there will be no answer.   Well, that was also true of malaria and yellow fever in America, in both cases the chemical was DDT. 

DDT no longer works on bed bugs, and our culture has been contaminated with lies about DDT, so it will never be returned to our arsenal, and we have a substantial arsenal of chemistry to fight mosquitoes.  But what happens when we begin to believe a malaria free society is our right, and not our responsibility?   We must not forget what brought us the life we enjoy, and it didn't come about by accident, or "all natural" solutions.  It came about because we effectively use large amounts of pesticides, and that's what saves lives.   Florida became heavily populated after WWII because of their intense mosquito control programs, and the use of pesticides. 

As I stated at that meeting, at the end of WWII the world's population was approximately two billion people, and it took thousands of years to get to that number.  In less that 75 years the world's population soared to 6.75 billion, and these products were so terrible, how did that happen?  

Pesticides are tools of mass survival, not destruction, and everything Rachel Carson said was either a lie, inaccurate, or speculation.

You may wish to review my DDT commentaries, my Rachel Carson file, and my entire DDT file.  

 

Children die when ‘eco-lies’ disrupt the war against mosquitoes

By Vijay Raj Jayaraj |July 15th, 2022|Environment|102 Comments @ CFACT

I am glad to be alive after a bout with dengue fever. But many across the world are not so fortunate. More than 4000 die each year due to dengue, a severe mosquito-borne disease.

It all began 10 days ago with intense fever. My body consistently clocked above 102 degrees Fahrenheit for 48 hours. Then followed severe pain in every part of the body. Once the fever and aching subsided, the second phase of the struggle began, with the blood platelet count falling dramatically.

Often, as in my case, the blood platelet count recovers on its own slowly. But in case of mismanagement, as the World Health Organization (WHO) reports, some people develop “complications associated with severe bleeding, organ impairment and/or plasma leakage.” In the worst cases, it results in death.

Contrary to expectation, the prevalence and incidence of cengue has increased in recent decades.

WHO says, “the number of dengue cases reported to WHO increased over 8 fold over the last two decades, from 505,430 cases in 2000, to over 2.4 million in 2010, and 5.2 million in 2019. Reported deaths between the year 2000 and 2015 increased from 960 to 4032, affecting mostly younger age group.”

“Before 1970,” the report went on, “only 9 countries had experienced severe dengue epidemics. The disease is now endemic in more than 100 countries in the WHO regions of Africa, the Americas, the Eastern Mediterranean, South-East Asia and the Western Pacific.”

Why is there a dramatic increase when we have effective disease control mechanisms at our disposal? Because the application of those solutions has been hindered by environmental movements.

The increase in dengue can partially be attributed to radical environmentalists’ opposition to the most effective killer of mosquitoes, DDT (dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane). The Aedes aegypti mosquito is the primary vector (carrier) of dengue. As per WHO, the mosquito is now “well adapted to urban habitats and breeds mostly in man-made containers/spaces.”  DDT remains one of the most effective deterrents of the Aedes aegypti mosquito.

Thanks to Rachel Carson’s unscientific claims about DDT in her 1962 book Silent Spring, the environmental movement against DDT began with blind stupidity. In 1972, the U.S. EPA banned DDT. Then in 2004, several countries decided to ban DDT at the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants. Today, most arguments (and movements) against DDT can be traced back to the inspiration from this fallacious fear-mongering unscientific book and its claims on DDT.

Not only were Carson’s claims untrue, but they have also managed to cause the deaths of thousands across the globe during the last three decades by acting as an active ideological hurdle to employing DDT to kill the deadly mosquitoes.

Some cities in India for example are influenced by the lies from her book and fail to proactively fumigate public places with DDT. Instead of using DDT as a preventive method, DDT fumigation is limited to a responsive measure, fumigating only when dengue cases occur.

And so far, we have addressed only dengue. The benefits of DDT fumigation appear far more critical if we are to consider their role in prevention of Malaria. Malaria affects 300 million people every year. The situation is far worse in the African continent, where malaria kills two children every minute. DDT can prevent the transmission of malaria by as much as 90% if employed efficiently.

I am thankful that I have recovered, and I am thankful that our government in India has not banned DDT. In fact, India is supplying DDT to South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Zambia for malaria control.

DDT is a life saver, and any country with mosquito-borne diseases should allow its use. Swiss chemist Paul Hermann Muller was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1948 “for his discovery of the high efficiency of DDT as a contact poison against several arthropods,” including mosquitoes. Let not the lies of Rachel Carson rob millions of African children of their very lives.

This article originally appeared at TownHall

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• Vijay Raj Jayaraj

  "Vijay Jayaraj (M.Sc., Environmental Science, University of East Anglia, England), is an Environmental Researcher based in New Delhi, India. He served as a Graduate Research Assistant at the University of British Columbia, Canada and has worked in the fields of Conservation, Climate change and Energy."

 

Studies of Pre-Conceptual Science Will Not Rid Us of Lyme Disease!

By Rich Kozlovich

In the last two years the has come under attack for what can only be called scientific fraud and corruption over their positions and mandates regarding this pandemic.  But let's try and understand this.  This deep deep state infection didn't just start.  For years this infection has permeated the CDC right along with all these agencies, including, and especially the EPA, which needs to be abolished, all of whom are supposed to be paragons of good science. 

•  Pandemic Conspiracy Exposed: A Crime Against Humanity!

Years ago this article appeared in the Poughkeepsie Journal article, Lyme activist questions federal study of pesticides in private yards, saying:

"A leading local advocate in the fight against Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases is calling a recent study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention “junk research” and a waste of taxpayer money. Jill Auerbach, chairwoman of the Hudson Valley Lyme Disease Association, come on the heels of a CDC study that suggests spraying individual properties with a pesticide does not reduce the rates of Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses in the people who live there.........Auerbach said the study should have been designed to include a larger neighborhood, rather than individual yards....."

Auerbach was absolutely correct in her assessment.  That money spent on this study was wasted research.  It is also clear to me that this study must have been conducted by those who really didn't understand how important widespread pesticide use is in order to impact pests, or more likely didn't care, and seems more like to me to be a case of "Pre-conceptual Science".  That's where you reach a conclusion before doing the research and then dismiss anything that disagrees with that conclusion.  Ergo, since you never see or hear anything that demonstrates your pre-conceived conclusion is wrong, it must be right.  

 

However - in the real world - making isolated pesticide applications will not resolve any pest problem if the surrounding areas are still filled with the target pest, and the consequences of ignoring the reality of pests and pesticides, cannot be ignored or dismissed.  In the real world people get sick and many die, in large numbers. 

Case Scenario One.

You are responsible for treating a twenty suite apartment building for roaches. Two of the apartment’s tenants refuse to allow you to treat their apartment and they both are filled with roaches.  What happens?  The other eighteen will still have a number of roaches each month when you return. Now, what if the numbers were reversed and only two suites were treated and the other eighteen left untreated. The migratory habits of roaches would bring them right back into the untreated suites in large numbers.  

Here's the numerical dynamics of German cockroaches.  If you have 1000 roaches in a structure and you only kill 90%, that leaves 100.  Half of them are female and half of them are pregnant.  At the end of 30 days you now have a numerical potential of 1010.  Obviously, there would be a whole lot more than just a few cockroaches in the treated suites in following month.

Now, let’s apply this real world situation and the problem of disease transmission. Let’s suppose roaches could transmit Lyme disease. What would give anyone reason to believe that the rate of disease would be reduced since the overall pest pressure from the surrounding environment would overwhelm any individual efforts, no matter how effective.

I think this statement is important to understanding what is going on behind the scenes: 

"Testing whether spraying reduces the risk of tick-borne disease is critical because people spend lots of money spraying their yards,” “These sprays can be toxic to wildlife, pets and people, and people expect a strong health benefit from doing so. The study’s finding … is very important in evaluating what works and what doesn’t. This was money well spent, in my opinion. "

That was a quote from Rick Ostfeld, disease ecologist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, who also said he didn’t think the study was poorly designed, which is what I would you expect from “independent” activists.

Well it was poorly designed! That is, if you really wanted to know what the real impact pesticides have on ticks and the transmission of Lyme disease. However, if your goal was to give the impression that making pesticide applications are valueless for the control of Lyme disease – this piece of junk science was an anti-pesticide activist’s dream.

One more thing! Bifenthrin is a synthetic pyrethroid. All pests are starting to show serious resistance to this chemical class. When we lost organophosphates, due to EPA’s manipulation of the rules as outlined in the Food Quality Protection Act, this problem with ticks, Lyme disease and bed bugs became far more serious.   

Here is the reality of this article and what these grant chasers will not tell you. If you design a study that uses less effective chemistry in small areas that are isolated and surrounded by areas where no pesticide applications are made, but have large tick infestations, the conclusion will be forgone. They will kill some pests in the treated areas but those areas will quickly re-infest, and if that pest is a disease carrier the rate of transmission will remain the same as if no pesticides were applied. I could have told them that for free and saved the taxpayers a half a million dollars.

Case Scenario Two.

You're hired by the government, to control mosquitoes you absolutely know can carrying any number of deadly afflictions such as, malaria, dengue, West Nile virus, chikungunya, yellow fever, filariasis, tularemia, dirofilariasis, Japanese encephalitis, Saint Louis encephalitis, Western equine encephalitis, Eastern equine encephalitis, Venezuelan equine encephalitis, Ross River fever, Barmah Forest fever, La Crosse encephalitis,  Zika fever, Keystone virus or Rift Valley fever, all of which can be amazingly deadly to large numbers of people, especially children.  

But the government decides that pesticides are so dangerous, you're only going to be allowed to make pesticide applications on one street and miss the next six blocks.  Would any rational person really expect to see positive results in thwarting disease transmission?  The answer is a resounding NO! Now double that insanity with a requirement you must use a pesticide that's the least effective because of false claims regarding safety.

In my opinion, any honest person who is familiar with pest control, pesticides, history, and with valid science, and reads this can only come to one conclusion. This study is nothing short of conclusions in search of data!

The reality is this. The answer to all these pest problems was effective, easy to use, inexpensive chemistry that was available to everyone. If that isn’t part of the answer there will be no answer and no amount research that leaves that component out will ever be anything but junk science.

We Were Winning the War Against Malaria

In the early 1970s malaria was all but eliminated by DDT.

Regarding Novartis CEO Vas Narasimhan’s “How Long Till the Final World Malaria Day?” (op-ed, April 25): Dr. Narasimhan conveniently omits the fact that in the early 1970s malaria was all but eliminated by one of the most important pesticides ever invented—DDT. While study after study proved DDT to be effective in eliminating the malaria-carrying mosquito, the EPA’s first administrator, William Ruckelshaus, chose to ignore the opinions of his own study group and ruled against the continued use of DDT.

The world followed and the exponential increase of malaria deaths followed around the world. Environmental groups cheered as the disease once again got out of control in the 1980s. Books like Rachel Carson’s flawed “Silent Spring” talked of thinning bird eggshells and increased bird mortality. Audubon bird-count records proved the opposite, and the eggshell studies were in fact of caged birds deprived of calcium in their diets.

Novartis surely will profit from continued efforts to control malaria through methods that will never equal what was already being accomplished by DDT. J. Gordon Edwards, who was the world’s leading expert on malaria and DDT in the 1970s, must be turning over in his grave.

Jay Lehr, Ph.D. The Heartland Institute Arlington Heights, Ill.

This appeared as letter to the Wall Street Journal.  I wish to thank Jay for alerting me.

Genetically engineered bacteria—spread by mosquito sex—could spell the end of malaria

Scientists spent ten years developing the special bug.

By Ellen Airhart September 29, 2017

 

The mosquito micro biome influences what parasites take hold.   The mosquito is a delicate insect, with spindly legs and a graceful proboscis. The parasitic, single-celled organisms that spread malaria are even smaller and more fragile, and scientists are trying their hardest to remove them from the planet. More than 400,000 lives every year are at stake—that’s more people than die of international terrorist attacks, lightening strikes and shark attacks combined.

 

Part of the solution may lie with genetically modified Serratia, bacteria sometimes found in showers and toilet bowls. Scientists have created a strain of the microbe that blocks the malarial parasite. And as a critical bonus, it can spread by itself through mosquito populations.........To Read More.....

Enemies of humanity

Mosquitoes and uncaring environmental activists perpetuate poverty, disease and death

Steven Lyazi

After being infected again with malaria last July, I spent almost a month in a Kampala hospital. Paying for my treatment was extremely difficult, as it is for most Ugandan and African families. I was lucky I could scrape the money together. Many families cannot afford proper treatment.

Where and how can they get the money to go back to the hospital again and again, every time a family member gets malaria, when they also need food, clothes and so many other things – or malaria makes them so sick that they can’t work for weeks or even months? Many parents can do nothing except watch their loved ones die in agony, and then give them a simple burial.
 

Far too many people still die from malaria every year in Africa, the vast majority of them women and children. Too many more die from lung and intestinal diseases, because we don’t have electricity, natural gas, clean water, or decent modern homes, clinics and hospitals.
 

Malaria also makes many people so weak that they die from other diseases that people in Europe and the United States rarely even hear about, like chronic dysentery. It saps people’s strength for years and leaves them with severe liver and kidney damage. Cerebral malaria causes lifelong learning and memory problems.
 

All these diseases create enormous barriers to Africa’s economic growth. They drain our national healthcare budgets and deepen our poverty. Malaria control and treatment alone cost Africa over $12 billion annually. Uganda alone spends $11 million a year fighting it. The disease drains an estimated $100 billion every year from the African economy.
 

Malaria also hits India and other countries really hard. The World Health Organization (WHO) says it drains India’s economy of as much as $2 billion every year. Billions in wages are lost, because people die or are absent from work, have low productivity due to fatigue, and have to spend so much on bed nets, insecticides, bug repellants, medicines, treatments and hospital care.
 

Terrible roads mean that, even when AIDS and other drugs are shipped to African countries, few people receive them. Many sit in warehouses until their expiration date passes, and then those expired drugs get sold on the black market. People buy them, and die. Other times, they take drugs until they feel better, and then sell the rest of the prescription. Then a more deadly, resistant malaria comes back and makes them even worse.
 

And yet global green campaigners endlessly spend money trying to prevent Africans from using fossil fuels, promoting renewable energy and trying to sell us little solar ovens. But this great generosity does nothing to address the horrible realities of people dying now – day after day, year after year. Greens worry constantly about Africans being exposed to insecticides. We worry about dying from malaria.
 

We don’t need enemies of humanity. What we need is financial and political support to conquer malaria, lung diseases and intestinal parasites. We need clean water and affordable, reliable electricity in our villages and cities. We need modern hospitals.
 

We need environmental activists to realize how important fossil fuels and hydroelectric plants are to having decent, healthy living standards, lights, computers, the internet, clean hospitals, clean water, and everything else modern countries have.
 

We need them to support us Africans in preventing malaria in the first place – which means we need more than bed nets. We need campaigners to recognize that we have the same rights as people in modern, rich, industrialized countries to decent living standards and modern technology.
 

Malaria viruses are constantly mutating, making available treatments less effective. Many families cannot afford the drugs, and many of the drugs are fake, just packaged to look like the real thing. People spend money on them, they don’t help at all, and people die.
 

The WHO says over 3 billion people around the world are still at risk of getting malaria. In 2015, there were 212 million cases of malaria and 438,000 people died, the vast majority of them in Africa.
 

Many of these illnesses and deaths could be prevented if just a few simple steps were taken right now, especially by allowing and encouraging countries to use preventive measures that work, like DDT.
 

So many people have access to medical care only on an irregular basis. Others have never learned how to take proper care of themselves or their children. But the most fundamental problem is malaria-carrying mosquitoes that are the source of our biggest scourge. And there is a readily available life-saving solution – DDT and other pesticides to kill mosquitoes and keep them out of our homes.
 

To me, there is simply no substitute for DDT. It is the most affordable, longest lasting, most effective mosquito repellant in existence. Sprayed in tiny amounts on the walls of traditional homes, just once or twice a year, DDT repels mosquitoes from the entire house, kills any that land on walls, and perplexes or irritates any that are not killed or repelled, so their urge to bite is gone.
 

Other pesticides that some activists say we can use are not as appropriate, or they are up to six times more expensive than DDT, or they have to be sprayed much more often. Every dollar spent this way is a dollar that’s unavailable for safe drinking water, electricity and other critical needs. 
 

DDT for indoor residual spraying programs is rejected because it is supposedly dangerous to the environment and might be detected in our blood or on agricultural products. We use it carefully, it is less dangerous than other pesticides, and being able to detect it does not mean it is a risk to anyone. No one has ever died from it, and it can help prevent malaria and other diseases that ruin our lives and kill us. 
 

Where DDT is used in the developing world, malaria cases and deaths often drop by 80% or more. Where it is not used, people die. If we can prevent malaria and other insect-carried diseases in the first place, we won’t have so many people sick and out of work. Families won’t have to spend their savings on treatment. Doctors and nurses won’t be overwhelmed, and will have the time and resources to address other health problems. It’s that simple.
 

But too many politicians and activists have made it impossible to prevent the disease by killing and repelling mosquitoes. They constantly oppose DDT use and insist that developing countries rely on insecticide-treated bed nets, larvae-eating fish and other strategies that are simply inadequate.

Malaria is no longer a killer in western countries – because they used DDT to help eradicate the disease decades ago. That may be a key reason as why many well-off westerners talk about environmental considerations being supreme, and tell Africans and other third world countries not to use pesticides because of supposed health risks and environmental damage.
 

Malaria also has nothing to do with global warming. It existed for centuries in northern Europe and even in Siberia. The same mosquito species still live there. They just don’t carry malaria anymore, and so cannot transmit it to people. That’s what we want to do in Africa.
 

Americans would never tolerate being told they could not protect their children – or that they should rely on bed nets or wait more long years for new drug treatments or magic mosquitoes that cannot carry malaria. But Africans are repeatedly told we have to be content with exactly these limited safeguards, while parents and children get sick and die. That is inhumane and imperialistic.
 

If wealthy nations and NGOs really want to help developing nations, they should support fossil fuel power plants for reliable, affordable electricity. They should support DDT as an important part of the solution to eradicate this serial killer, so that Africans can work, spend less on malaria, have more money for other healthcare and family needs, and develop as much as rich nations have.

 

Steven Lyazi is a student and worker in Kampala, Uganda. He served as special assistant to Congress of Racial Equality-Uganda director Cyril Boynes, until Mr. Boynes’ death in January 2015. He plans to attend college and help his country and Africa get the energy and other modern technologies they need.


A few thoughts from Paul Driessen a frequent Paradigms and Demographics contributor. - Steven Lyazi, my young friend in Uganda, had another brush with malaria a few weeks ago. He writes about it in his latest article, and offers his thoughts on African versus environmentalist priorities.

Malaria drains some $100 billion a year from African economies, he notes, and kills over 400,000 people a year, mostly in Africa. “And yet,” he says, “global green campaigners endlessly spend money trying to prevent Africans from using fossil fuels, promoting renewable energy and trying to sell us little solar ovens.

But this great generosity does nothing to address the horrible realities of people dying now – day after day, year after year. Greens worry constantly about Africans being exposed to insecticides. We worry about dying from malaria.”

Thank you for posting his article, quoting from it, forwarding it to your friends and colleagues – and helping to change the mindsets that continue to hold Africa back, by imposing harmful policies on countries that are trying to end killer diseases and raise living standards to what Americans and Europeans enjoyed 50 to 100 years ago.

Paul

Behavioral Resistance: Mosquitoes Learn to Avoid Bed Nets

Posted by Alex Berezow — January 3, 2017 @ The American Council on Science and Health

Malaria is a notoriously tricky infectious disease. Because of a unique genetic flexibility, it is able to change surface proteins, avoiding the immune response and greatly complicating vaccine development. Furthermore, the parasite is transmitted by mosquitoes, which are difficult to control. Insecticides work, but mosquitoes can develop resistance to them.

One method widely used to control malaria is for governments or charities to provide families with insecticide-treated bed nets. Overall, this strategy is very successful, and it has been credited with preventing some 451 million cases of malaria in the past 15 years. But bed nets are not successful everywhere. In some parts of the world, mosquitoes develop "behavioral resistance"; i.e., they learn to avoid bed nets by biting people earlier in the day.
A team led by Lisa Reimer of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine monitored mosquito behavior in villages in Papua New Guinea before (2008) and after (2009-2011) the distribution of bed nets. Data from one of the villages, Mauno, depicts a very noticeable shift in mosquito feeding behavior. (See graphs on the right.)

Before bed nets were distributed in 2008, the median biting time for mosquitoes was around midnight. After the distribution, the median time shifted back to 10 pm. Also, a greater proportion of mosquitoes took their dinner even earlier, from 7 to 9 pm.

Worryingly, it's unclear whether the bed nets were effective at preventing malaria transmission. The number of bites per person per night dropped after the introduction of bed nets, but started to climb in subsequent years as mosquitoes began to adapt. Additionally, the prevalence of malaria infection in humans -- arguably, the only statistic that actually matters -- dropped in one village, remained the same in a second, and ticked up slightly (albeit insignificantly) in a third.

Despite the mixed results in Papua New Guinea, Dr Reimer believes that bed nets should continue to be used worldwide as part of a mosquito control strategy. However, she notes that behavioral resistance may prove just as vexing as insecticide resistance and, in some locations, may limit the efficacy of bed nets.
Thus, mosquitoes must be monitored for both behavioral and insecticide resistance, as the little creeps stubbornly refuse to die and may be cleverer than we thought.

Source: Edward K. Thomsen et al. "Mosquito behaviour change after distribution of bednets results in decreased protection against malaria exposure." J Infect Dis. Published: 22-December-2016. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiw615

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Engineering Mosquitoes’ Genes to Resist Malaria

By NICHOLAS WADE

 

A female anopheles stephensi mosquito, a species predominant in Asia that spreads malaria.  
CreditDavid Scharf/Science Source

In a basement on the Irvine campus of the University of California, behind a series of five protective doors, two teams of biologists have created a novel breed of mosquito that they hope will help eradicate malaria from the world. The mosquito has been engineered to carry two ingenious genetic modifications. One is a set of genes that spew out antibodies to the malarial parasite harbored by the mosquito. Mosquitoes with these genes are rendered resistant to the parasite and so cannot spread malaria.......The other modification is a set of genetic elements known as a gene drive that should propel the malaria-resistance genes throughout a natural mosquito population. When a malaria-resistant male mosquito mates with a wild female, the gene drive copies both itself and the resistance genes over from the male chromosome to its female counterpart........Kevin Esvelt, an expert on the gene drive technique at Harvard, said he was delighted with the work of the two teams. “We have a wonderful chance of knocking down malaria and dengue fever and other diseases, so hats off to Tony James, who has been developing these techniques for 15 years,”.......To Read More....

My Take - This has very real potential, and if you have a heart you must hope this will come into being soon - and work - saving untold millions of lives and preventing hundreds of millions from being sickened. However - let's try and keep this in mind. The greenies will be as much against this as they are DDT because this is a genetically modified organism, to which they are universally and unilaterally opposed. There will some hemming and hawing, but no matter what they may say on the surface - underneath they will hate it. Furthermore, if this works it will not end the DDT argument. We must understand that! Why? Because DDT is foundational to everything the greenies have in way of influence and money. That argument must - and will - always be fought. If it isn't DDT, it's carbamates, organophosphates, neonicotinoids and any other pesticide category on the market. DDT gave them an illegitimate credibility they will never abandon. We must not abandon our support for DDT even if it's no longer necessary to save lives, otherwise they win an argument that will resonate in other environmental arenas. They lied and people died - that's the real story - that's the story that must be repeated. We must win the battle of emotion as well as the battle of facts in order to win the war to protect humanity against these misanthropes.

Malaria, Resistance and Environmentalist Induced Poverty

"DDT resistance takes the form of excitation and avoidance, making it ideal for keeping mosquitoes from human prey even after resistance develops. Does this suggest anything?" - Steve Milloy

Malaria surge feared:
WHO releases action plan to tackle the spread of insecticide-resistant mosquitoes
By Amy Maxmen

The war to bring malaria to heel has made slow but steady progress during the past decade, with the overall mortality rate dropping by more than 25% since 2000. A key factor in this progress has been improved control of mosquitoes, which transmit the Plasmodium parasite — a potent killer that claimed an estimated 655,000 lives in 2010 alone. But health officials fear that the spread of insecticide-resistant mosquitoes could bring about a resurgence of the disease. To help combat this threat, on 15 May the World Health Organization (WHO), based in Geneva, Switzerland, issued a strategic plan to curb the spread of resistance.....

The WHO report says that insecticide-resistant mosquitoes already inhabit 64 malaria-ridden countries. The problem is particularly acute in sub-Saharan African countries such as Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Ethiopia and Uganda, where mosquitoes are frequently resistant to compounds known as pyrethroids and even to the organochloride DDT, venerable tools of mosquito control. Because they are extremely safe for children, effective against mosquitoes and affordable, pyrethroids are the only insecticides used to treat bed nets, as well as the first choice for household spraying.....

Using Earth’s Blessings To Better Mankind and Planet
By David Legates

When a country is in dire need of food, clothing, shelter and other necessities for life, it cannot possibly be concerned with environmental issues.…. Unfortunately, some so-called environmentalists wish to keep Africa and other developing nations in perpetual underdevelopment. They pay them off to be “environmentally conscious,” by giving them handouts – food and monetary aid – to keep them alive and perhaps have little solar panels on their huts. But they also ensure that those poor families never prosper or become middle class – so as to perpetuate environmentalist notions of “noble natives,” supposedly “at one” with their environment and living a “sustainable” existence….much of that money is lost to corruption, while the people are forced to continue living in a state of poverty, disease, malnutrition and deprivation, as technologies that could enhance their length and quality of life are denied to them. Among the technologies denied are modern seeds, fertilizers, and high-tech, high-yield farming methods to increase food supplies; natural gas and electricity to heat homes and cook food, instead of cutting down forests and burning wood, thereby degrading indoor air quality and causing lethal lung infections; refrigeration so that people do not have to choose between eating spoiled food and going hungry; and the use of insecticides, including the powerful insect repellant DDT, to spare them from the agonizing illness and death brought on by malaria…… I fail to understand how anyone thinking rationally can argue that poverty and economic hardship will enhance environmental stewardship, or that the planet is more important than the people who live on it.



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Observations From the Back Row

De Omnibus Dubitandum!

House's '80 communists' in caucus founded by socialist group
Aaron Klein
Republican Rep. Allen West 'stands by his words' - Rep. Allen West’s remark that up to 80 members of the House are communists was a reference to the membership of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, which was founded by a U.S. socialist group, the Democratic Socialists of America. Some Caucus members still demonstrate a close working relationship with the socialist group West’s spokesman, Tim Edson, clarified in a statement today that West was referring to the Congressional Progressive Caucus in his talk with voters last night in Palm City, Fla. Edson declared that the Florida Republican “stands by his words.”

Court: TSA, not passengers, deserves privacy
by Bob Unruh
Rejects cases filed by Americans enraged over digital strip-searches - A federal appeals court has rejected claims by passengers and pilots that the TSA invaded their privacy and violated their rights by demanding pat-down inspections or full-body scans. The decision affirms a district court ruling from Judge Henry H. Kennedy Jr., who cited a “secret” order from the TSA as the reason he rejected the cases.
The government, insisting that the “secret” order contains “sensitive security information,” has refused to make public the document outlining the procedures… Institute attorneys had argued that since the TSA “order” has remained “secret,” there has been no opportunity for the public to comment on it, and “passengers and pilots are not only being deprived of their Fourth Amendment rights, but also their due process right to a fair hearing on their challenge to the secret TSA policy.”

“This ruling does not bode well for attempts to ensure transparency in government or efforts to safeguard Americans against virtual strip searches and other excessive groping of our bodies by government agents, especially when there’s no suspicion of wrongdoing,” ...“When civil liberties are tossed out the window – by government agents or by the courts – we all lose. No American should be forced to undergo a virtual strip search or be subjected to such excessive groping of the body as a matter of course in reporting to work or boarding an airplane when there is no suspicion of wrongdoing,” he said.

Few hybrid vehicle owners are repeat buyers
Hybrid sales have been surging as fuel prices take their latest run towards record levels. But the news might not be nearly as good as it would seem if a new study by R.L. Polk is any indication. Despite previous sales surges tied to past petroleum price hikes the U.S. hybrid vehicle market hasn’t been able to maintain its momentum and the Polk study apparently explains why. After living with the high-mileage technology, nearly two of three hybrid owners wind up returning to a more conventional vehicle when it’s time to trade in. “Having a hybrid in the product lineup can certainly give a brand a competitive edge when it comes to attracting new customers,” noted Brad Smith, director of Polk’s Loyalty Management Practice. “The repurchase rates of hybrid vehicles are an indication that consumers are continuing to seek alternative solutions to high fuel prices.”

12 Christians in Iran await verdicts after Easter Sunday apostasy trial
Twelve Christians stood trial Easter Sunday in Iran, where they were called “apostates” in a courtroom and tried on multiple charges, according to sources close to Iran’s Christian community. The Christians had been acquitted on the same charges, including “crimes against the order,” a year ago in Bandar Anzali, a city on the Caspian Sea. The group was first arrested when authorities found them drinking wine while taking communion, according to sources. “It ultimately illustrates that being a Christian is illegal in Iran. No matter how clear or how open a pastor and a church may be, Christians are being brought to trial just for being Christian,” said Jason DeMars, director of the Present Truth Ministries

Deadly Virus Increases Mosquito Blood Lust
Jennifer Welsh, LiveScience Staff Writer
Mosquitoes are already blood-sucking machines, but new research indicates that the dengue virus, which the mosquitoes transmit to humans, makes them even thirstier for blood. The virus specifically turns on mosquito genes that make them hungrier for a blood meal; the activated genes also enhance mosquitoes' sense of smell, something that likely improves their feeding skills. The result is a mosquito better able to serve the virus by carrying it more efficiently to human hosts.

Malaria Mosquitoes Accurately Find Their Way to Smelly Feet
Malaria mosquitoes utilize CO2 from exhaled air to localize humans from afar. In the vicinity of their preferred host, they alter their course towards the human feet. Researcher Remco Suer discovered how female malaria mosquitoes use foot odors in the last meters to guide them to their favoured biting place. Suer, who is defending his doctoral thesis May 9 at Wageningen University, part of Wageningen UR, sees possibilities to disrupt the host seeking behaviour of the malaria mosquito.

The 10 Most Diabolical and Disgusting
Charles Q. Choi
Parasites are sly, using the cleverest of ploys to stay alive while destroying almost everything in their tracks. Parasites have no mercy. Some devour the insides of their hosts. Another replaces the victim’s tongue with its own body. Here are some of the goriest highlights of the moochers.

Malaria Drug Failing–Bring out the DDT
Wesley J. Smith
DDT is a very effective pesticide, that helped the USA eradicate malaria as a health problem in the American South. But Rachael Carson blamed it for many environmental woes, and it became discredited. Many, myself included, believe that millions of poor children and others in Africa and elsewhere have died because DDT was not more aggressively wielded in malaria areas to kill mosquitoes.

Green Environmentalist Wants Eco-Gulags For Climate Change Deniers
Finnish Environmentalist - "the state should enact draconian measures of discipline, prohibition, enforcement and oppression in order to make people comply with environmental dictates." Before the apologists start and say that this eco-fascist is a lone voice in the wilderness, not representative of the Green environmental movement and all the usual platitudes used to explain away these people; Google “Climate Skeptics should be punished” and consider the 7.4 million hits Google returns. The demands of the Church of Climatology and its supporters for the punishment of sacrilege does not just come from Finland, the calls are global, from people such as the British Royal Family’s Green simpleton Prince Charles, Obama Science Czar John Holdren and NASA junk scientist James Hansen, who took time off from making up climate data, to demand jail for Climate Change Deniers.

Congress flooded with calls to probe Obama
Thousands demanding answers about president's eligibility - Sheriff Joe Arpaio says he’s talked to members of Arizona’s congressional delegation about his Cold Case Posse investigation, which has found probable cause that there was fraud in the creation of the birth documentation for Barack Obama released by the White House in 2011. The investigators also believe that Obama’s Selective Service registration is a forgery, leading to the obvious question of what happens if Obama is ineligible for the presidency. But Arpaio’s effort to persuade federal lawmakers apparently has fallen on deaf ears….The signers then demand that Congress launch an investigation because “not to finally resolve this monumental and unprecedented constitutional issue would be intolerable, and would constitute the most extreme disrespect and contempt for the U.S. Constitution.”

Obama's advancing communism
Exclusive: Erik Rush urges Americans to beat the drum about BHO's 'Marxist agenda' - For 100 years, communists believed that America was the only thing standing in the way of communism truly “succeeding” internationally. That’s a convenient if transparent bit of propaganda, but one which has resulted in leftists remaining dedicated to the objective of bringing America down for decades. American communists, being the pathological narcissists they are, have convinced themselves that they’ll do it the “right way” this time. Having dismantled America, what then could they not accomplish?

Holder: Voter fraud 'does not really exist'
Comment comes as video reveals attorney general's own ballot in jeopardy
A video has been posted online that reveals Attorney General Eric Holder says voter fraud “does not really exist,” even as another video shows that a man was offered Holder’s own ballot in a Washington election.
The evidence of voter fraud issues was created by Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe, who released videos from three states that show his undercover colleagues easily gaining access to ballots for dead and living people and even registering to vote as Tim Tebow and Tom Brady

Why Dems hate voter ID
Exclusive: Joseph Farah says Obama, Holder have no problem with racial discrimination - It’s time to be very honest about why one political party – and one political party only – is dead-set against requiring voters to properly identify themselves at the polling place before casting their ballots. That party is the Democratic Party. And the reason it opposes voter ID is because it makes voter fraud easier when identification is not required. This should be self-evident to just about everyone – and actually is. Because every public opinion poll on the subject shows 70 to 80 percent of Americans in favor of voter ID laws. Republican voters favor it. Democratic voters favor it. Whites favor it. Blacks favor it. Hispanics favor it. Men favor it. Women favor it. Yet, the Democratic Party establishment and big majorities of Democratic members of Congress hate it…. So what the Democratic Party machine prefers is chaos at the polls, allowing virtually anyone to vote – citizen, non-citizen, legal resident, illegal resident, registered voters, non-registered voters, real voters, impostors.

Donna Laframboise: The WWF’s Vast Pool of Oil Money
The World Wildlife Fund’s first corporate sponsor was Shell oil – which continued to fund it for the next four decades. “Remember the headline in The Independent that pointed an accusing finger: Think-tanks take oil money and use it to fund climate deniers? And the Center for Media and Democracy’s claim thatOil Money Funds Climate Deniers and Attacks on Climate Scientists. And CleanTechnica’s automatic assumption that any politician who accept donations from oil companies is therefore a “shill for oil & gas interests”.



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Africa Fighting Malaria: Alternatives

By Rich Kozlovich

This year is the fiftieth anniversary of Silent Spring, Rachel Carson's mendacious and flagrantly unscientific book that was the foundation for the ban on DDT (please don't send me claptrap about how she said that she didn't want DDT banned. I am aware of what she said, but I am also aware that the only conclusion one could come to after reading this magnificently written piece of science fiction was that DDT had to be to banned.), it was clearly the most important book that became foundational in starting the modern environmental movement and clearly its effect made it one of the worst books of the 20th century. I will be addressing this 50th anniversary in later posts.

As you read this please be aware that the very products they are working with as DDT alternatives are the very products the environmental movement is trying to eliminate. They have done so with propoxur and all other carbamates for structural pest control uses in the U.S. and they are playing with the regulations and labeling to restrict pyrethroids. The ban of DDT is a symptom of an overall plan of incrementalism.

They wish to eliminate pesticides and they have been successful with every chemical category they have attacked. Chlorinated hydrocarbons (DDT, Chlordane, etc.), Organophosphates (Dursban, Diazinon) and Carbamates (Ficam and Baygon, AKA propoxur).Now they are attacking pyrethriods. The green movement is irrational and misanthropic. We really do need to get that.  It doesn't matter what alternatives we develop they will eventually attack those also.  For this reason the unscientific ban on DDT needs to be lifted.  That ban is foundational to everything that is the environmental movement.  If that can be overturned then all else they stand for can be challenged, including their funding.  

Degradation of insecticides used for indoor spraying in malaria control and possible solutions
The insecticide dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane (DDT) is widely used in indoor residual spraying (IRS) for malaria control owing to its longer residual efficacy in the field compared to other World Health Organization (WHO) alternatives. Suitable stabilization to render these alternative insecticides longer lasting could provide less controversial and more acceptable and effective alternative insecticide formulations than DDT.

Methods

This study sought to investigate the reasons behind the often reported longer lasting behaviour of DDT by exposing all the WHO approved insecticides to high temperature, high humidity and ultra-violet light. Interactions between the insecticides and some mineral powders in the presence of an aqueous medium were also tested. Simple insecticidal paints were made using slurries of these mineral powders whilst some insecticides were dispersed into a conventional acrylic paint binder. These formulations were then spray painted on neat and manure coated mud plaques, representative of the material typically used in rural mud houses, at twice the upper limit of the WHO recommended dosage range. DDT was applied directly onto mud plaques at four times the WHO recommended concentration and on manure plaques at twice WHO recommended concentration. All plaques were subjected to accelerated ageing conditions of 40degreesC and a relative humidity of 90%.

Editor's Note:  It is important that you see this video until the end. RK

Africa Fighting Malaria: Fake Drugs

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Fake malaria drugs could 'put millions at risk'
16 Jan 2012
BBC News

Fake and poor quality anti-malarial drugs are threatening efforts to control the disease in Africa and could put millions of lives at risk, scientists say. The counterfeit medicines could harm patients and promote drug resistance among malaria parasites, warns the study, funded by the Wellcome Trust…..Some of the fake tablets are said to have originated in China…..They examined fake and substandard anti-malarial drugs that were found on sale in 11 African countries between 2002 and 2010. They discovered that some counterfeits contained a mixture of the wrong pharmaceutical ingredients which would initially alleviate the symptoms of malaria but would not cure it.

Some of the ingredients in the tablets could cause potentially serious side effects, the study found, especially if they were mixed with other drugs a patient might be taking, like anti-retrovirals to treat HIV……."The enormous investment in the development, evaluation and deployment of anti-malarials is wasted if the medicines that patients actually take are, due to criminality or carelessness, of poor quality and do not cure."

My Take - It seems impossible that any human being could perpetrate such crimes, yet it happens all the time.

A number of years ago I read where oil sold as cooking oil was in reality some form of fuel oil. I forgot how many died, but the very idea of deliberately selling death to unsuspecting innocents is hard for most of us to fathom.

Yet, isn't that what the green movement is doing when it promotes programs that are failing, have failed in the past and the records are doctored to make it look as if it is working? So how do we accept the greenies lack of concern of those who are dying due to their anti-chemical policies? If we, as an industry, refuse to recognize that which is obvious can we claim to be entirely innocent of the green movement’s crimes against humanity?

If we actually recognize their complicity in the destruction these poor innocents are suffering, and remain silent, do we not share in their guilt?

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Africa Fighting Malaria: The Future

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Malaria's Defeat, Africa's Future

Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
29 Jan 2012

Africa is taking command of its future by tackling an ancient plague: malaria.  Supported by the lessons learned from the decade to "roll back malaria," which produced a 33 percent decline in malaria deaths in Africa between 2000 and 2010, 41 African presidents have now signed on to end deaths from the disease in their home countries as part of the African Leaders Malaria Alliance (ALMA). ALMA is a great illustration of President Barack Obama's pronouncement, made before the parliament in Ghana in 2009, that "Africa's future is up to Africans." The world's support is indispensable, but Africa is getting the job done through mutual accountability, innovation, and collaborative problem solving……If you care about the health of mothers and children, you must care about malaria. Malaria is one of the top three killers of children under the age of five in Africa, claiming a young life every minute. It is a nightmare for parents: in the morning, your child can be laughing and playing, seemingly healthy. By nightfall, she can be fevered and comatose, fighting for her life.

Africa Fighting Malaria: Progress and Challenges

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Fighting Malaria: Progress and Challenges 05 Dec 2011

Africa Fighting Malaria On Monday, December 5th, AFM's Roger Bate testified before the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, and Human Rights on the increasing threat of anti-malarial drug resistance in Africa; a threat that could become a reality due to the proliferation of fake and substandard anti-malarial drugs in African markets and the poorly managed AMFm perpetuating inappropriate treatment of non-malarial fevers with anti-malarial drugs.   Dr Bate's testimony is available here.   AFM's submitted written testimony is available here.   A recording of the hearing is available here.

Africa Fighting Malaria: Failure of Development

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Public policy failures and the development of new insecticides
05 Dec 2011

Africa Fighting Malaria On December 5, 2011, AFM presented its poster on public health insecticides at The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene's 60th annual meeting in Philadelphia, PA. The abstract accepted for poster presentation is available here (number 397). AFM's full paper is available here. A printer friendly version of the poster is available here.

My Take - The truth is that the greenies have untold influence on the development of new insecticides and groups like methods. "PANNA: Aims to replace pesticide use “with ecologically sound and socially just alternatives”, along with advocates promoting malaria prevention methods such as “improved sanitation” and “water drainage.” We now know that their claims of success are false. There is something that we really need to get. If "all natural" works, why didn't it work for the thousands of years past?  Over these thousands of years malaria has killed more people than all the other diseases combined and the only way it was ever brought under control was with the introduction of DDT.

Starting during WWII, the answer was effective, inexpensive chemistry. That must be the answer now or there will be no answer.  The ban on DDT must be lifted. There was no justification for it in 1972, there is no jusfitication to maintain it. The ban on DDT is foundational to the hold the environmental movement has on society. We cannot progress properly until this has been corrected.

Africa Fighting Malaria: Leadership on Malaria

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Leadership in the fight against malaria
Roger Bate, 12 Dec 2011
Africa Fighting Malaria In the past decade great strides have been made in the fight against malaria, and many other diseases that proliferate in the tropics. US Government annual spending on malaria has increase from just under $90m in 2004 to the desired $691m requested by the President's Malaria Initiative for next year. Not only are we spending more money, but we're spending it better too. In September 2004 I testified before the House Foreign Affairs Africa subcommittee on malaria and the US Government's performance, and I did so again last week. The key difference is that in 2004 with a small budget the US Government was essentially advising other Governments on how to combat the disease, whereas today it is actually combating the disease - almost eliminating it from a few places, notably the Tanzanian island of Zanzibar.......

Africa Fighting Malaria: World Malaria Day

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World Malaria Day - Just another PR swat at malaria? 17 Apr 2008
April 25 has this year been declared World Malaria Day. Since 2001, April 25 has been observed as Africa Malaria Day, commemorating the signing of the historic Abuja Declaration by 44 African malaria-endemic countries at the African Malaria Summit held in 2000….. Despite all efforts, malaria continues to be a serious public health concern throughout the world. It affects over 100 countries and approximately 40 per cent of the world's population. It causes between 300 and 500 million infections and approximately 1 million deaths each year, most of which occur in the poorest region of the world, sub-Saharan Africa. It is estimated that malaria claims a child's life every thirty seconds and the ones who survive an episode of severe malaria are likely to suffer from learning impairment or brain damage. Pregnant women and their unborn children are also particularly vulnerable to malaria, which is a major cause of stillbirths, low birth weight and maternal anaemia.

My Take - The reality is that there isn’t a family in these regions who haven’t lost a family member to malaria. We need to get this. If this was happening in America the EPA would be defunded, disbanded and there would be demands that the first director, who made the decision to ban DDT, along with his lackeys who made it happen, be tried for murder.

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Africa Fighting Malaria: Support For DDT

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SA's Leading Malaria Researchers Doctors Support the use of DDT to Control Malaria
Published April 25th 2004

South Africa's leading malaria control experts, researchers and doctors support and endorse the use of the insecticide DDT to control malaria. Their statement is released in light of recent claims that DDT is harmful to human health and should be removed from South Africa's malaria control programme. In a media statement, researchers from, among others, South Africa's Medical Research Council, National Health Laboratory Services and the World Health Organisation assert that since its introduction to disease control, DDT has been associated with improved human health and population growth, not the reverse.

Africa Fighting Malaria

By Rich Kozlovich

Over the years I have had the opportunity to talk to some who have been involved in this organization via e-mail. I also had the pleasure of meeting Richard Tren, who is a director of AFM and a real gentleman, at the showing of Dr. Rutledge Taylor’s film 3Billion and Counting. They are maligned by the greenies and their fellow travelers regularly; but the beauty of truth is that it will “very patiently wait for us”. Time is on their side, unfortunately time is a killer for so many in the world as a result of greenie influence.

There are some things that we really do need to get. One of them is that everything everyone “knows” about DDT is a lie. The vast majority of the information in articles discussing DDT directly, or as a side bar to another topics, are lies. DDT was the greatest chemical discovery for the benefit of mankind in all of mankind’s history. Chemistry is not the enemy; however, modern environmentalism, along with its adherents and promoters are! Secondly, malaria has killed more people over the centuries than all the other diseases combined. Thirdly, when you consider that hundreds of millions are afflicted by this plague every year, and the effect on them long term is so detrimental, one has to wonder why so much money is spent on other afflictions per ration to the impact each makes on humanity.

I intend to highlight articles from the AFM site for some days.  I hope as they appear  everyone will take advantage of this. 

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