DDT FEAR COULD PLAGUE WORLD'S POOR.(Editorial)(Column) From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Date: August 27, 2002 | COPYRIGHT 2002 Seattle Post-Intelligencer. All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of the Dialog Corporation by Gale Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: RICH LOWRY Syndicated columnist

Sometime in the '70s, the pesticide DDT became the most loathed and feared three letters this side of KKK.

This was a coup for DDT-scourge and "Silent Spring" author Rachel Carson, but it hasn't been so wonderful for the world's poor, who have suffered countless thousands of needless deaths thanks to an exaggerated fear of DDT and other pesticides.

As the United States battles the mosquito-borne West Nile virus, this summer is a reminder of something that the rest of the world never had the luxury of forgetting: Mosquitoes ...

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