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DDT – Trust the Science

1940s: DDT sprayed onto children’s heads.

Its inventor gets the Nobel in 1948. Trust the Science.

Swiss chemist Paul Hermann Müller discovered the insect-killing properties of DDT in 1939. He won the 1948 Nobel Prize for his discovery, which played a historic role in halting deadly insect-borne epidemics like malaria and typhus.

In the 1960s and 1970s, books like Silent Spring showed how DDT hurt birds and wildlife, leading most countries to ban it.

Talk about a Rabbit Hole! The Silent Spring from a quick look does way more than that. Mainly I see that the Lady not only told them about DDT, but chemicals in general. AND. She seems to have prophesized what is happening today!! I will have to find out more….. back to the DDT…

DDT was banned for general and agricultural use in the United States in 1972, followed by South Africa in 1974, and largely restricted worldwide under the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants in 2004.Timeline of the DDT Ban1972: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a cancellation order for most DDT uses due to environmental and wildlife damage.

1974: South Africa banned general use of DDT, though restricted public health applications for malaria control in specific regions continued.2004

There is no official or exact statistical figure tracking a specific number of chemicals that are simultaneously banned yet actively imported into South Africa from the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants.

I read about “hackers”, man I would LOVE to be able to do that. Or at least meet someone that can get me info I know is there!

Then. Up in Angola in 1994 I saw, and used DDT. Put it on my ankles mainly. No tick bites while I was up there after that. Don’t know if it made me sick as we were all sick from Gogga bites and what-not, before we got the DDT.

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