Setback for first malaria vaccine in African trial

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Herbert1212 wrote:

How about attacking the source..Mosquitos
Spraying the walls and eaves of houses once or twice a year with DDT, a powerful spatial repellant keeps 80-90% of mosquitoes from even entering a home; irritates any that do enter, so they don’t bite; and kills any that land. DDT is a long-lasting mosquito net over entire households. No other chemical, at any price, can do this. And no one (certainly not any eco pressure group) is working to develop one.
This miracle chemical had helped prevent typhus and malaria during and after World War II, and completely eradicate malaria in the United States, Canada and Europe. It was then enlisted in an effort to rid the entire world of malaria. After initial successes, DDT ran into an unexpected roadblock in 1969.
The war on DDT was never about protecting people or birds. It was, and is, about power, control, money and ideology – regardless of the resultant human misery, disease and death.

For the new Environmental Protection Agency, it was about power and politics. As the greens’ campaign to ban DDT intensified, EPA Administrator William Ruckelshaus convened a scientific panel, which held six months of hearings, compiled 9,312 pages of studies and testimony, and concluded that DDT was safe and effective and should not be banned.
Nevertheless, without attending a single hour of hearings or reading a page of the report, Ruckelshaus banned US production and use of DDT in 1972 – at a time when over 80% of the chemical was being exported for disease control. He later said his decision had nothing to do with cancer. He had a political problem, he said, and he fixed it. How nice for malaria victims.
Three billion humans dead so far from malaria … and counting. And green ideologues work tirelessly to ensure that the callous, needless global death toll continues to rise.

Nov 09, 2012 7:11pm EST  --  Report as abuse
TruthinChrist wrote:

Well the truth is that NO vaccine prevents disease. Vaccines have NEVER been proven to prevent disease. It’s only a THEORY that if you bombard the immature immune system at birth that the immune system will be stronger in preventing disease. In truth, vaccines wreak havoc on the immune system and cause more disease (Lou Gehrigs, cancers, arthritis, multiple sclerosis, autism, crib death, ETC!) The ONLY way to strengthen your immune system is with non-GMO, unprocessed food, natural exercise and stress management. If you have a strong immune system you can fight off any exposure to bacteria or a virus. That’s why God gave us an immune system in the first place. I would not recommend using DDT as Herbert below recommends in his comment. I would use other natural mechanisms that are on the market. Vaccines are the biggest money-making scam in our history or man-kind.

Nov 10, 2012 8:27am EST  --  Report as abuse
Herbert1212 wrote:

DDT works far better than many pesticides now in use, many of which are just as toxic to birds, mammals, fish and other aquatic organisms. And with DDT unavailable, many mosquito-control authorities are depleting their budgets by repeated spraying with expensive, short-acting and marginally effective insecticides.

http://www.aaenvironment.com/DDT.htm

Nov 10, 2012 2:47pm EST  --  Report as abuse
egadsno wrote:

“The surprisingly poor result for the vaccine,” No its not a surprise at all, the flu shot makes you more likely to catch the flu and people are running around like lemmings lining up for it. Meanwhile getting 3 of them in your lifetime doubles your natural risk of alzheimers- free flu shot indeed, they will get their money back in spades.

While I agree with many points Thruthin commented- do not confuse monsanto with gmo, gmo is neither good or bad- its what is done withe technology that has these values. Just because Obama was happy to have a monsanto VP be the FDA food czar- does not mean monsanto gmo is safe, the workers refused to have it at their own cafeteria.

Remember America drink your fluoride, eat your aspartame, get your vaccines, eat food that grows its own poison- get cancer and die, its good for the economy. Well some peoples economy…

Nov 10, 2012 4:39pm EST  --  Report as abuse
egadsno wrote:

By the way google mosquito laser, TED unveiled it a couple years ago- it can track and kill like 5000 mosquito per second, actually only kills female ones too.

Nov 10, 2012 4:41pm EST  --  Report as abuse
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