Bacteria, Viruses and Insects Develop Ever Increasing Resistance to Synthetic
"Controls"
Since the days when optimists had
set out to defeat malaria, hoping to drive the parasites off the face of the
earth, the global situation had worsened significantly.
Subject: Bacteria, Viruses and Insects Develop Ever Increasing Resistance to Synthetic "Controls"---
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 09:05:00 -0500
From: Stephen Tvedten <steve@getipm.com>
Organization: Get Set Inc. (www.getipm.com)
To: Paul Helliker <phelliker@cdpr.ca.gov>
Director, State
of California, Department of Pesticide Regulation
cc: Carol Browner browner.carol@epa.gov
Dear Mr. Helliker,
I would like to quote you a few lines from "The Coming
Plague" by Laurie Garrett. The
book was copyrighted in 1994 and the situation has become worse since then.
"It seems we have a much greater enemy in malaria
now than we did just a few years ago," Dr. Wen Kilama said.
The director-general of Tanzania's National Institute for medical
Research was frustrated and angry in 1986.
He, and his predecessors, had meticulously followed all the malaria
control advice meted out by experts who lived in wealthy, cold countries.
But after decades of spending upward of 70 percent of its entire health
budget annually on malaria control, Kilama had a worse problem on his hands in
1986 than his his predecessors in 1956...
Since the days when optimists had set out to defeat
malaria, hoping to drive the parasites off the face of the earth, the global
situation had worsened significantly. Indeed,
far more people would die of malaria-associated ailments in 1990 than did in
1960...
In 1990 more than 80 percent of the world's malaria cases
were African; 95 percent of all malarial deaths occurred on the African
continent. Up to half a billion
africans suffered at least one serious malarial episode each year, and
typically an individual received some 200-300 infective mosquito bites
annually. Up to one million
African children died each year of the disease.
And all over the continent the key drugs were
failing.
Well Mr. Helliker, if you continue to insist that only
your "registered" synthetic "controls" be used - it is
becoming more and more obvious that you will be a insuring that many more
people will die not only from your "registered" POISONS but, also
from the resistant pest problems they simply can not CONTROL!
Sympathy sees and says, "I'm sorry." Compassion sees and
says, "I'll help." Precaution sees and says, "I'll stop."
When will it be "legal" (in your opinion) to stop using your
"registered" POISONS and to begin to use safe and far more effective
(unregistered) alternatives to actually solve pest problems?
Respectfully, Stephen L. Tvedten
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