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You want to know how? DDT.
Yes, DDT which repels the mosquito that caries malaria is one of the most effective ways to help stop the spread of the disease. We did a little feature on Weapons to control malaria. The big problem with DDT is its adverse environmental effects. But in places where malaria is killing large numbers of people shouldn't this concern outweighed the environmental ones? These folks think so. Yet, the United Nations doesn't totally agree, because they are considering an eventual total ban on DDT use.
What do you think? Should we step up use of DDT to help stop malaria even though it might be bad for the environment?
we have the ability to think creatively and create responses that go beyond our short term gain. let's fight malaria and take steps towards protecting our environment...
i think scientistis should be smart enough to find a cure!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Are you nuts? How is poisioning ones environment any better-choose your death. ? How about clean water and clean practices to control mosquitos? What happens when mosquitos become resistant to DDT? NO.
Um yeah I think so. Cause look at the malaria diease that is going around. Plus it seem that it won't help to stop the spread of the dieases. When a new dieases come in the next 50 years people will be very careful and making sure not to try to catch it at all.
there is pills to avoid the spread of maleria
There are antimalarial medications, but they can be expensive, have nasty side effects, and don't work in every case. (Also, malaria is becoming resistant to many of these drugs.)
They're OK if you're just traveling or working temporarily in a place where malaria is endemic (check the CDC's recommendations in the link above to find out which one you should take). But they're not so great if you're considering a lifetime of use. For example, long-term use can cause a variety of more serious side effects. Also, many antimalarials can't be taken by, or are more dangerous in, pregnant or nursing women or young children--the very people who need the protection the most.
yes
i know
that it can kill you and make you sick!!!!!!!
thats so true...for this disease and all other diseases as well
I really hope that a cure can be found because there has been so much progress in science. However I think in 100 years is more plausable.
I agree
please...in a world where people only want whats best for themselves, even if there was a cure it will be at the expense of other people
ha! what a joke...we have harm the world so badly its impossible to undo the damage
it will take international agreement
When ddt was banned there was over 50 million deaths, can counting. Hitler couldn't even pull that off... Just use it...it's not enough little kids in africa are starving, but they also have to worry about deadly mosquitos that'll make them suffer a more horrible death than starving. They have it bad enough as it is. Who cares about some stupid birds. Them dead won't stop the trees from growing, or the world to die. It's just one more species that dies, just like hundreds of other species that nobody (in all honesty) cares about. Seriously, does anybody miss the dodo bird. Let's save a couple of million kids people. Survival of the strongest means, if they weren't strong enough to live then good riddance. And the human race should be strong enough to live, if everybody helps out a little. the human race isn't supposed to have any natural predators, and yet millions are getting wiped out by single celled organism. ...seriously now...
Technology is developing so quickly these days, so I believe that malaria may have a cure in the next 50 years. It definatly is very, very possible.
Medicine and vaccines are developing enough with the help of new technology to someday maybe find a cure. For example, there is now a vaccine for cervical cancer, so a cure is very possible in the future for malaria.
I think that they might be able to have a cure in 50 years.
I think that it is really possible.
I don't know,because maybe the world won't even exist then or maybe the people become stupider than the prehistoric people.Or even mosquitoes will be extinct.Or just as a thought,maybe people will be extinct.You never know.I'm not pyscic or anything,and I don't think anyone else is,so how can we decide.Let the future decide
i think that ddt is gross and sick
Dr. Sam Zaramba, director general of health services for Uganda, argues for the safe use of DDT to combat malaria.
I do understand that a lot could be done about Malaria but where does the funding come from and are we all sure that there isn't more we could all do I mean come on if we were putting our greatest effort into it, it would be a much different place......................^_^........>_<................-_-................<_>........................................sorry if I seem weird to you.................^_^>_<..............
DDT should not be used. What happens when other parasites and bacteria mutate and we can not fight it, then what???
If they mutate, then it means that there has been and overuse of the chemicals,Hoever,DDt should not be used to begin with
hmm but we would take a while killing all the mosquitos. but DDT is prob not the best choice.
i think that most people would like to save others if they were your family so i say YES!!!YES!!!YES!!!YES!!!YES!!!YES!!!YES!!!YES!!!YES!!!YES!!!YES!!!YES!!!YES!!!YES!!!YES!!!YES!!!YES!!!YES!!!YES!!!YES!!!YES!!!YES!!!YES!!!YES!!!YES!!!
We don't need 2 billion more people in Africa to take care of, diseases keep the population down below starvation levels. Diseases are a natural occurrence, a cycle of life, the weak die from the diseases, the strong survive.
The entire population of Africa is still slightly less than 1 billion.
When you refer to "the weak," do you mean "the poor"? Because I'm totally not immune to malaria, but I guarantee you, dude, that it I will never have to personally worry about that disease. Probably because I'm so strong.
But, yeah, I think I disagree with your premise. I mean, people get diarrhea in America all the time, but you don't see 800,000 kids dying from it annually. And I don't think it's so simple as overpopulation, or that people born in 3rd world countries are naturally weaker than Americans.
That statement is unspeakably cruel and profoundly immoral.
What have other people done to try to stop malaria?
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