I’ve had enough of malaria! Where is DDT?
Jul 03, 2007
SIR — For a long time, my family has battled the menace of mosquitoes and the attendant result of malaria without much success. The media has been awash with the arguments for and against the use of DDT in fighting mosquitoes.
SIR — For a long time, my family has battled the menace of mosquitoes and the attendant result of malaria without much success. The media has been awash with the arguments for and against the use of DDT in fighting mosquitoes.
The arguments have not solved the malaria problem which has always besieged my dwellings. I remember a time during my tender years when I did not catch malaria despite the prevalence of mosquitoes then. But my recollection is that it was simply because in my home area each one had a weapon in terms of our beddings.
Our beds were covered with bark-cloth and no mosquito could find any bit of us to feed itself. It is unthinkable that we can once again go back to the medieval ages of covering ourselves with barkcloth!
Whereas those campaigning against the use of DDT have a point, they ignore the number of lives lost to malaria. It is also understandable that pharmaceutical companies that thrive on our misery cannot easily let go of the drugs production, hence the veiled ecological/environmental outcry against the use of DDT.
I wish to be directed to where I can buy DDT to spray my house. The chemical was used in the early 1970s to spray our cotton and banana trees. Let the ecologists and environmentalists guard their homes and those of their dependants; as for me I want malaria out of my home.
Ahamed Kyendo
Mukono
The arguments have not solved the malaria problem which has always besieged my dwellings. I remember a time during my tender years when I did not catch malaria despite the prevalence of mosquitoes then. But my recollection is that it was simply because in my home area each one had a weapon in terms of our beddings.
Our beds were covered with bark-cloth and no mosquito could find any bit of us to feed itself. It is unthinkable that we can once again go back to the medieval ages of covering ourselves with barkcloth!
Whereas those campaigning against the use of DDT have a point, they ignore the number of lives lost to malaria. It is also understandable that pharmaceutical companies that thrive on our misery cannot easily let go of the drugs production, hence the veiled ecological/environmental outcry against the use of DDT.
I wish to be directed to where I can buy DDT to spray my house. The chemical was used in the early 1970s to spray our cotton and banana trees. Let the ecologists and environmentalists guard their homes and those of their dependants; as for me I want malaria out of my home.
Ahamed Kyendo
Mukono