This is clipped from the record of the 1946 campaign to check an - TopicsExpress



          

This is clipped from the record of the 1946 campaign to check an epidemic of malaria in the Kipsigis tribal reserve in the Kisumu district of north-west Kenya by spraying village huts with DDT. A team of public health workers are sent into the rural areas to convince villagers that spraying their huts with DDT will help stop the disease. When the skeptical tribal headman, Arap Kipkoi, resists DDT as poisonous, the British officer has DDT sprayed on a bowl of porridge and then eats a mouthful to prove DDT is not dangerous to humans. DDT is not very acutely toxic, so this misleading demonstration was possible. But the hazards from DDT are long term and it is certainly not safe. Thanks Moms Across America
Posted on: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 19:35:00 +0000

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