Dr Rutledge Discussing the Upcoming Premiere of 3 Billion And Counting

[kshart32]

Is this guy serious? He wants to unleash an environmental disaster that will indiscriminately wipe out all insects (not just bedbugs or mosquitos), thus killing the birds that eat insects-- including peregrine falcons, which were almost brought to extinction by DDT. Apparently he has not read Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring."

[RocketeerAndRoll]

Bedbugs can actually transmit a number of diseases, namely the MRSA staph infection. Thought you might want to know that...

[bedbugscouk]

Pleased to see you are now focusing on DDT and Malaria, it does not and will not work for bedbugs and to try to garner publicity through association only exposes poor science.

David Cain

Bed Bugs Limited

[danjafilm]

Part iV This is a true life genocide of innocent little people going up in smoke. There is no true reported Malaria death count in Africa. (poor records if any) but everyone I talk with has felt a Malaria death or more in family or know of many-most under age five.

[danjafilm]

Part III

It was first used for "inside" of WWII Army tents. It saved 100’s of thousands of our fighting men. This is not a hard figure because it is speculation or guessing...

With modern drugs-primarily babies and or children under age five die...teens and Adults simply take the drug much like we do aspirins and or build up a tolerance but remain with the disease...however, they become transfer positive stations...

[danjafilm]

Part II the harmless spray last about a year...it is an "indoor" spray that was banned in U.S. in 1972-It was Populace - Progressives first post V Nam war victories...i.e. The global health Org's followed ban in mind-set e.g. not using or recommending use of DDT. (Accept a few did roller coaster) The ban was based on out door water reports-I know the fellow by the way.

[danjafilm]

Yes, (Lalla) I work in Malaria clinics in "Africa"...I have seen and have held these "dead" babies...DDT did not eradicate Malaria in the U.S. A. e.g.  Modern construction however did the job. DDT=repels approx. 90+ irritates 3% and kill rate is 2%-3% GO FIGURE! -

[xmfclick]

@danjafilm: While it is true that malaria was reduced in the US through urbanisation (i.e. pouring concrete all over the landscape, and people moving to live in towns and cities) it still persisted in the countryside. This is where DDT was used to great effect, to mop up the remaining "pools" of malaria which would otherwise have acted as a reservoir for the disease to come back time and time again. Ultimately, the solution to the problem is to make Africans richer, so they live in better ...

[xmfclick]

@danjafilm #2: ... surroundings, have better sanitation and health care and consequently fewer children; but this isn't going to happen any time soon or by magic. So, in the meantime, use DDT (in combination with other methods, if you want) to reduce malaria and other vector-borne diseases. This will break the poverty spiral and enable Africans to work to become richer. (This ignores politics and corruption, of course, but that's another subject.)

[Lalla770]

DDT was used in the USA and after malaria was eradicated in the USA it was banned. My family were exposed to DDT regularly over the years- and nothing happend to them as a result. I would like to ask the DDT opponents if they have had direct experience of DDT themselves? In the end it all comes down to experiment. Why should those who have had direct experience of DDT believe those who have not come near this substance? Comment after seeing the movie.

[danjafilm]

@Lalla770

i left a iv part reply to your ddt-malaria question @ the youtube 3billionAndCounting via Dr. Rutledge

[OneLightHouse1]

The horror with which DDT is associated in our minds is unfounded. DDT is extremely effective at repelling mosquitoes from homes which have been sprayed. The mozzies don't enter, the people don't get bitten, the cycle of transmission is broken. Malaria cases drop. Check it out for yourself. See the 3 billion and counting trailer.

[edarrell2]

Bedbugs developed resistance to bedbugs in the 1940s -- DDT use against them was stopped in the 1950s, years before the government banned DDT use on cotton crops.

Get the facts, at sites like Deltoid, Crooked Timber, Bug Girl, and Millard Fillmore's Bathtub. We don't need DDT to fight malaria. DDT won't work against bedbugs. Malaria deaths are, now, the lowest in human history.

We cannot poison Africa to good health.

[bedbugscouk]

Hi,

Saddly bedbugs are resistant to DDT as many studies have shown.

Please do not try to get support for your DDT issues from bedbug sufferers because clearly you dont understand the basics of the bedbug issue.

Please spread accurate information on bedbugs gained from sites such as bedbugger and bedbugbeware rather than ill informed rubish.

David Cain