Note to Ms. Garrett: While 3,865 have died from Ebola since March, 3,000 black African children die every day from malaria in sub-Saharan Africa. It was not so long ago that vital aid was provided to Africa with the pesticide dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane (“DDT”). DDT wiped out malaria here in the U.S. and was impacting the malaria epidemic in Africa until environmentalist Rachel Carson wrote Silent Sprint in 1962. The pesticide was banned globally in 1996 on the basis that it is a probable (but not proven) human carcinogen.
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