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Date: 8 Aug 2003
Posted by: Timothy Male (tmale@environmentaldefense.org)

Besides the NYTimes, there are other outlets currently beating the same
drum on DDT.  Other articles are from the Cato Institute, Competitive
Enterprise Institute, Hudson Institute, National Anxiety Center ("founded
to debunk the many claims made by environmental and consumer organizations
that were engaged in deliberately false, media-driven scare campaigns").  I
have attached links to these stories below, FYI.

I could be mistaken, but I have garnered from this ListServ that states,
counties, and municipalities have an adequate array of non-bioaccumulating
larvicides and adulticides for large scale mosquito control, and an
adequate array of non-bioaccumulating pesticides to use for personal 
protection,
including DEET?

If this is the case -- if the impact of WNV is not being exacerbated by a
shortfall in pesticide availability -- it's hard to see what the motivation is
behind current interest in DDT.

Perhaps there are local and national media opportunities for readers of
this list to make the case that pesticides are only a part of the response
to West Nile Virus as it becomes endemic throughout North America?



Cato Institute
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,60528,00.html
Competitive Enterprise Institute    http://www.cei.org/gencon/003,03491.cfm
National Anxiety Center
http://www.newswithviews.com/news_worthy/news_worthy25.htm
Hudson Institute
http://www.cgfi.com/materials/articles/2002/aug_8_02.htm
Townhall.com
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/benshapiro/bs20020815.shtml



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Timothy Male, PhD.

Senior Ecologist
Environmental Defense
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Washington, DC 20009

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