[Boatanchors] Replacing 866s with 3B28s

[D C *Mac* Macdonald]

Millions in Africa every year from malaria.

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> Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 07:30:42 -0800
> From: jfor at quik.com
> To: grimm at sbc.edu
> CC: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Replacing 866s with 3B28s
>
> Yes, the Pelicans lived. But, how many people died as a result of banning
> DDT?
>
> -John
>
> =============
>
>
>
> > So far as I know, people didn't die from DDT unless they consumed it.
> > DDT
> > saved countless human lives from diseases borne by insects, particularly
> > mosquitoes. It was a major tool in the fight to control malaria. Rachel
> > Carson, in her book "Silent Spring," pointed out that DDT was killing the
> > birds. Many would say that the arguments in "Silent Spring" in 1962 led
> > to
> > the banning of DDT in 1972 and the birth of the environmental movement in
> > the United States. The once nearly extinct Brown Pelican made an amazing
> > recovery after DDT was banned.
> >
> > 73,
> > Ken - K4XL
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 2:35 AM, Jan Erik Holm wrote:
> >
> >> Yes and we also used DDT!! Some people did die
> >> like flies.
> >> /Jim SM2EKM
> >> ----------------
> >> On 2010-12-30 04:34, w4awm at aol.com wrote:
> >> >
> >> > I recall that one of the high class hotels in Greenville, SC used to
> >> coat their change in mercury back in the late 40s and early 50s.
> >> Everyone
> >> who got change carried that stuff around in their pockets until it was
> >> all
> >> spent. Wow, what we didn't know back then.\
> >> >
> >> > John, W4AWM
> >> >
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> > Ken - K4XL
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