Dear @UN - Know what would prevent a lot of the malaria cases in Africa? Pesticides. #Oops
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Chris Barnhart (@ChrisBarnhart) April 23, 2012Today is World Malaria Day, and celebrities and public officials were out in force to raise awareness:
Happy World Malaria Day! Some great advancements are happening now to make this horrible disease a thing of the past. … say.ly/lgW3a5D—
Shannon Elizabeth (@ShannonElizab) April 25, 2012
Supporting! RT @feferang World Malaria Day 2012 — "Sustain Gains, Save Lives: Invest in Malaria" bit.ly/1wjMN0 #endmalaria—
Deepak Chopra (@DeepakChopra) April 25, 2012
This World Malaria Day is going to be BIG. @nasdaq ready to #endmalaria I'm about to ring that Nasshaq bell—
(@SHAQ) April 23, 2012
Around the world, there are problems of baffling complexity. Malaria is not one of them. It is preventable. #WorldMalariaDay—
Susan Rice (@AmbassadorRice) April 25, 2012
Malaria kills a child every 60 seconds. Here's a video on how we can help fight it virg.co/KBblA #worldmalariaday—
(@richardbranson) April 25, 2012
Did you know a child dies frm malaria evry minute? It’s TIME to change that! Take a Minute to #endmalaria bit.ly/HKvqjt—
Perez Hilton (@PerezHilton) April 25, 2012
Twitter users in both Africa and the U.S. noted that the battle against malaria is most effective if bed nets and other environmentalist-sanctioned approaches are supplemented with judicious use of pesticides that kill the mosquitoes that spread malaria:
Malaria is d biggest killer in Nigeria under d age of five!Pls use insecticides 2safe life. http://t.co/vzRJduOR—
victor mayomi (@VictorMayomi) April 25, 2012
Happy World Malaria Day. Brought to you by a bunch of hand wringing lefties who hate insecticides.—
Joshua Culling (@joshuaculling) April 25, 2012
@katharinemcphee @HuffingtonPost Please support the ending of the ban on DDT. DDT will end malaria.—
Ira Rohinsky (@broadwaydad) April 25, 2012
@Veronica If we want to end malaria, we need to re-embrace DDT. Biggest reason it isn't used? U. S. government. #endmalaria—
Matt Pritchett (@HYImp) April 25, 2012
ℓ̊†'s world malaria D̶̲̥̅̊aγ̲̣̣̥ †☺D̶̲̥̅̊aγ̲̣̣̥, sleep under mosquito net, spray insecticides. Let's eradicate malaria outa our country.—
John Oluwershegun (@JohnShegun) April 25, 2012
Hollywood peeps raising $ 4nets & tents 2 fight malaria & don't know what DDT is. Places which use(d) DDT = 0 cases of malaria #endmalaria—
Ric Gruber Jr (@ricgruber) April 25, 2012
Malaria nets do not fix the problem. Use DDT to ward off this illness. Studies show that when it's coupled with nets, malaria goes away.—
Gabriella Hoffman (@Gabby_Hoffman) April 25, 2012
Thank you, Twitter, for reminding us that pesticides are of enormous benefit to humanity. Misguided opposition to their use by U.S.-based environmentalist groups has possibly resulted in hundreds of thousands of unnecessary malaria deaths in Africa and elsewhere. If malaria eradication were truly a top concern for these celebrities, they’d trade in once-a-year P.C. platitudes for informed, reality-based solutions.
