DDT Vs. Malaria Lab Report

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Alvarez A. Moultrie
11-11-14
ISB lab

DDT VS. Malaria

Observation and Background information

Malaria is a disease that is in the blood; it comes from the plasmodium parasite. Malaria is carried from a mosquito to person then it spreads from person to person. (Kar,N) There are over a hundred species with malaria parasite that are highly populated in Africa these parasites are called Plasmodium falciparum. (Kar,N) when a parasite gets into a humans system it finds its way in the liver where it creates approximately ten thousand more. (Kar,N) Female mosquitos transmit malaria. (Kar,N) Two weeks in the body parasite move into the blood stream where it starts messing up the red blood cells. (Kar,N) It usually takes 10 days to four weeks after …show more content…

(NPIC) Years down the line a scientist named Mueller also discovered DDT in 1939. (NPIC) DDT was a well-known pesticide used to control insects in the United States until it was canceled in 1972 by the United States Environmental Protection Agency. (NPIC) People that served the military at the time of World War II used DDT for public health purposes. DDT was used to control all of the following malaria, typhus, body lice, and bubonic plague. (NPIC) DDT is still available to be legally produced in the United States, it can only be sold and used by foreign countries. …show more content…

(Dyson, J) DDT is toxic to birds when ingested. (NPIC) I would rather for the insects to be killed instead of malaria getting out of hand and killing humans. The World Health Organization estimates that there are 300 to 500 million cases of malaria each year and around one million deaths. (Dyson, J) These numbers are going up to 20 percent a year in some areas. (Dyson, J) Its been proven that when countries quit using DDT malaria gets out of hand. (Dyson, J)
DDT has been proven to lower the number of malaria caused deaths. For example India’s malaria of 800 000 a year death rate was cut to zero by the late 1960s. In Sri Lanka DDT was reduced to 2.8 million cases a year to just 17. (Dyson, J) The US National Academy of Sciences in 1970 stated that DDT had prevented millions of deaths that would have been inevitable. Small amounts of DDT can affect small microorganisms. (Duke.edu) DDT microorganisms don’t usually die, they tend to keep the DDT in themselves this makes it bad for those predators who eat these organisms.

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