Re: EVENT: Join "Make Poverty History" riders to Edinburgh, Fri 1 July 2005

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From: Phil Armstrong
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M Holmes <fofp@holyrood.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
>> Effectively applied and available treatment for malaria and TB would
>> also be rather useful. It's hard to work when you're debilitated by
>> disease. But diseases of poverty don't attract the big R&D money of
>> the drug companies.
> 
> We did have DDT, but green whiners stopped 'em using it. I bet the
> Africans are really thanking them for that.

This is completely false. DDT is (and always has been) still used for
malaria control where appropriate.

Or, to put the above another way: Cite please.

Phil

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