<div>Really, it has been banned in most of the world, but has been used against malaria in some countries (Moçambique?) and kala-azar (India?), I suppose.</div><div><br></div><div>The battle of pros and cons for the ban remains.</div><div><br></div><div>Personally, I think the ban for health purpose has been an enormous mistake.</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>Em sex, 17 de fev de 2017 às 22:44, Be-Nazir <<a href="mailto:dbenazirahmed@yahoo.com">dbenazirahmed@yahoo.com</a>> escreveu:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg">DDT is banned in Bangladesh and is regarded as potent environmental pollutant. To consider this aspect along with efficacy</div><div id="m_-6514270727811997653AppleMailSignature" class="gmail_msg">Benazir <br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">Sent from my iPhone</div></div><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">On ৭ ফেব্রুয়ারী, ২০১৭, at ৭:০২ অপরাহ্ণ, Carlos Brisola Marcondes <<a href="mailto:cbrisolamarcondes@gmail.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">cbrisolamarcondes@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:xx-large">Dear all,</div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:xx-large">I would recommend to read the paper on a reappraisal of DDT for the control of visceral leishmaniasis in Brazil, in annex.</div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:xx-large"> It was written by me and Dr. Carlos Costa.</div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:xx-large"><span style="font-size:12.66px" class="gmail_msg">Sincerely yours</span><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_msg"><div style="font-size:12.66px" class="gmail_msg">prof. dr. Carlos Brisola Marcondes<br class="gmail_msg">Dept. Microbiol. Imunol. Parasitol./CCB</div><div style="font-size:12.66px" class="gmail_msg">Federal University of Santa Catarina<br class="gmail_msg">Florianópolis (SC)</div><div class="gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:12.66px" class="gmail_msg">Brazil</span></div><div class="gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:12.66px" class="gmail_msg">CV: </span><font color="#1155cc" class="gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:12.66px" class="gmail_msg"><u class="gmail_msg"><a href="http://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/visualizacv.do?id=K4783901J2" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">http://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/visualizacv.do?id=K4783901J2</a></u></span></font></div></div></div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-size:xx-large"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_extra gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_msg">2017-02-07 10:31 GMT-02:00 Carlos Costa <span class="gmail_msg"><<a href="mailto:chncosta@gmail.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">chncosta@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br class="gmail_msg"><blockquote class="gmail_quote gmail_msg" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Dear all,</div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Israel Cruz, Slavica Vaselek and Luigi Gradoni have sent amazing papers and opinions on the reduction in incidence of kala-azar in Southern Europe after WWII, with data from Spain, Yugoslavia/Serbia and Italy. </div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">The papers are attached. All agree that the massive spray with DDT was the main causal factor, leading to 20-30 years impact, including India.</div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">However, other factors acting simultaneously such as the availability of pentavalent antimonials, herd immunity, nutrition could be ruled out as associated driving forces.</div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Data from other countries such as Portugal, France or Greece have not been shared yet (!). Information from the Middle East and Northern Africa would fuel more insights.</div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">DDT seems to have been quite important in USSR and East China. Regarding Brazil, DDT certainly was the main factor reducing the incidence in the Sobral and Jequitinhonha Valley.</div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Therefore, Carlos Brisola's question remains in the game: "Time to re-evaluate DDT?" </div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">I attach the article send by Israel, the two sent by Luigi, and the one by Brisola and I. Also, I share a recent more recent update about kala-azar in China.</div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">All my best,</div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Carlos.</div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">PS. If you are more curious, check this excellent documentary on Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, which actually "killed" DDT: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/22/us/rachel-carson-ddt-malaria-retro-report.html" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/22/us/rachel-carson-ddt-malaria-retro-report.html</a></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div></div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_msg">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br class="gmail_msg">From: <b class="gmail_sendername gmail_msg">Gradoni Luigi</b> <span class="gmail_msg"><<a href="mailto:luigi.gradoni@iss.it" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">luigi.gradoni@iss.it</a>></span><br class="gmail_msg">Date: 2017-02-03 13:07 GMT-03:00<br class="gmail_msg">Subject: Re: [Leish-l] VL Europe<br class="gmail_msg">To: Carlos Costa <<a href="mailto:chncosta@gmail.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">chncosta@gmail.com</a>><br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">
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<p class="gmail_msg">Hi Carlos,</p>
<p class="gmail_msg">as regards Italy, VL reduced drastically in incidence immediately after the 1947-1952 malaria eradication campaign using DDT (i.e. at the end of WWII) and remained so till early 1980s, when it increased again.</p>
<p class="gmail_msg">The transmission has always remained rural or peri-urban.<br class="gmail_msg">
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<p class="gmail_msg">Attached are:</p>
<p class="gmail_msg">- a 1987 Transactions paper on VL in adults in Sicily showing the trend from 1941 through 1984;</p>
<p class="gmail_msg">- a more recent Eurosurveillance paper on all VL cases in Italy, with the trend from 1982-2012</p>
<p class="gmail_msg">Best</p>
<p class="gmail_msg">Luigi <br class="gmail_msg">
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<b class="gmail_msg">Inviato:</b> martedì 24 gennaio 2017 22:34<br class="gmail_msg">
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<b class="gmail_msg">Oggetto:</b> [Leish-l] VL Europe</font>
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Dear colleagues,</div>
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I am always wondering in VL actually reduced the incidence in Europe after WWII.</div>
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Was the transmission rural or urban?</div>
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Does anyone know any paper/document on this?</div>
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Many thanks,</div>
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Carlos.</div>
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