- Louisiana Public Health and FEMA to perpertrate new assult
on New Orleans, Naled Pesticide Spraying.
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- The experts agree that New Orleans woud be less likely
to have mosquitos breeding in the extremely toxic waters of N.O. than in
other areas of the Gulf Coast where the residule flood waters don't have
the toxic contents.
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- Patty
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- For Immediate Release
- Shawnee Hoover - Beyond Pesticides
- 9-15-5
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- Beyond Pesticides supports a health-based approach to
mosquito management in New Orleans. It does not support the ineffective
spraying of the highly toxic insecticide, naled, to combat the risk of
mosquito-borne disease. The recent announcements of Louisiana public health
officials and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) on September
12, 2005, that Naled poses
- no health hazards to humans is false - Naled is linked
in peer-reviewed scientific studies to cancer and interference of prenatal
brain development.
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- In order to protect the public from the risks of West
Nile virus and other mosquito-borne disease resulting from Hurricane Katrina,
Louisiana public health officials must take a preventive approach by killing
the mosquitoes before they hatch - not after.
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- Officials should be using a least-toxic bacteria larval
control called Bti (Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis) that is proven
to kill mosquito and fly larvae at rates scores higher than the spraying
of naled, an organophosphate insecticide with the highest acute toxicity
of any mosquitocide. Unlike naled, Bti will not kill the natural mosquito
predators, which can take up
- to a year to replenish and are instrumental in keeping
the mosquito population in check over time.
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- Particularly alarming in this case, is that many of the
people left in the flooded area that are exposed to the pesticide may also
be experiencing weakened immune systems from lack of nutrition, clean water
and exposure to other toxins in the area, making them even more vulnerable
to the harmful effects of the pesticide.
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- Beyond Pesticides is concerned about the health of those
who are suffering from exposure to the toxic floodwaters and believes that
all efforts must be made to reduce any further exposure to toxic chemicals.
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- For more information, contact Shawnee Hoover at Beyond
Pesticides, Tel. 202-543-5450 or visit the website www.beyondpesticides.org/mosquito.
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- Beyond Pesticides is a national environmental health
organization protecting the health of children and their families, wildlife
and the environment by advocating for the use of safe and effective alternatives
to hazardous pesticides.
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- Patricia A. Doyle, PhD
- Please visit my "Emerging Diseases" message
board at:
- http://www.clickitnews.com/ubbthreads/postlist.php?
Cat=&Board=emergingdiseases
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- Zhan le Devlesa tai sastimasa
- Go with God and in Good Health
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