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Subject: Re: [OM] Hiking Advice
From: "W. J. Liles" <wliles@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 20:50:09 -0500
Steve Goss wrote:
> 
> Wrong -cide. DDT is for killing plants, DEET focuses on animals.
> 
> Thanks, Steve Goss, Dallas Tx usa
> 
> Larry wrote:
>

EEErrrrr, no.  DDT is one of the first organochloride pesticides.  It is
a neurotoxin for insects and, when first introduced during WWII it was
tremendously effective and saved a lot of GIs from malaria.  It,
unforutnately, is persistent in the environment and some of the
breakdown products mimic hormones.  It was responsible for the near
extiction of the Peregrine falcon and other large birds of prey like the
eagles.  The Louisiana brown pelican succomed to DDT washed down the
Mississippi and disappeared from the state.

It was a miracle with an attached curse.

Jerry Liles


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