Ddt vs the Human Race

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A’Nyiah Brown 10/30/2012 Professor Joseph DDT vs The Human Race Should DDT be reapproved for the use in the wake of recent bedbugs across the country? Through the research I have found, I see that DDT should resurface because it hasn’t been proven that this chemical isn’t harmful to the human race or animals. DDT has been known to control pesticides in crop, livestock production, bedbugs infestation, and help end the spread of the Malaria. If this synthetic chemical is actually helping others then it should resurface. DDT also known as dichloro-diphenly-trichloroethane is an organochlorine insecticide which is a white, crystalline solid, tasteless, almost odorless and was discovered in 1939 by Paul Hermann Muller. The synthetic chemical compound that was made in a laboratory can’t be dissolved in water however it is easily dissolved in organic solvents such as fats and oils. As a tendency to dissolve in fats, DDT can build up in the fatty tissues of animals that are out in the open. Amass build up, known as bioaccumulation, EPA described DDT as a persistent toxin because if it remains in certain sea creatures and the levels are often the highest in the body of animals near to the top of the food chain. Some people claim that DDT can cause serious health effects on humans such as liver cancer, nervous system damage, birth defects and other reproductive. There are no real studies that show DDT causes any type of cancer and disastrous effects on human beings or animals. Paul Muller was a lifesaving Swiss chemist and Nobel laureate. In 1948 he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine for his 1939 discovery of insecticidal qualities and use if DDT in the control of vector diseases such as malaria and yellow fever. His first DDT patent was recorded in Switzerland in 1940, and the United States and Australia in 1943. In 1943, DDT stopped the epidemic

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