[Ted Pestorius] Okay, I want to go back to these mosquito control programs that were successful at minimizing these other diseases. Why did they stop?
[Amesh Adalja] I think there were a lot of different reasons and some of them include some wariness over the use of DDT, which a lot of people may have heard about that happened after the publication of Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring. And I think, also, we did so well at mosquito control in some areas that it kind of became a victim of it’s own success, that it became less of a priority, so then people didn’t think of it as something that they needed to continually do and be vigilant about. And I think, you know, the whole collapse of the malaria eradication program really was a major factor.
[Ted Pestorius] Okay, I want to go back to these mosquito control programs that were successful at minimizing these other diseases. Why did they stop?[Amesh Adalja] I think there were a lot of different reasons and some of them include some wariness over the use of DDT, which a lot of people may have heard about that happened after the publication of Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring. And I think, also, we did so well at mosquito control in some areas that it kind of became a victim of it’s own success, that it became less of a priority, so then people didn’t think of it as something that they needed to continually do and be vigilant about. And I think, you know, the whole collapse of the malaria eradication program really was a major factor.
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