Dave Smith wrote:

> On 2020-01-05 2:52 p.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> >
> > > We used to have DDT trucks drive down our streets spraying the
> > > neighborhood. I'm still around and kicking. DDT has saved
> > > countless lives from the most dangerous killer on this planet.
> > > The mosquito. Several thousand kids die every day from malaria
> > > which could have been prevented by DDT. That's just insanity but
> > > I suppose if it makes folks like you feel safer, it's all worth
> > > it, right?
> > >
> > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dDy0o3IIpk
> >
> > DDT is a probable human carcinogen.
> >
> > Mosquitoes became resistant to DDT after 6-7 years of spraying.
> >
> > And, of course, Silent Spring.
> >
> > We're well rid of DDT.
> >
>
>
> We are seeing more and more of the raptors who, being way up the food
> ladder, had consumed so much DDT that their eggs were too thin and
> did not survive brooding.

WE have bald eagles here in Virginia Beach again. I even saw one in a
front yard on Silina last year.