Reflections on World Malaria Day 2013: Who Actually Cared?
April 25, 2013
By David Zaruk April 25 was World Malaria Day 2013. It is marked in my calendar as a black day to commemorate the thousands who die every day from malaria. As these are mostly infants and mostly in Africa, they have no voices in Brussels or Washington, where erroneous decisions were made decades ago to ban the pesticide DDT without considering the consequences of such a precautionary fail.
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