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From: mat@mtx5a.UUCP (m.terribile)
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Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: AIDS question (was: Re: Read the AIDS articles carefully!)
Message-ID: <1572@mtx5a.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 25-Sep-86 02:03:10 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 25 02:03:10 1986
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> In article <1530@mtx5a.UUCP> mat@mtx5a.UUCP writes:
> > With the exception of insecticides used against species that have the
> > immediate potential for severe damage to people and the environment (the
> > Karpa beetle and methyl bromide), insecticides approved for use today are
> > self-destructing when exposed to the environment.
> 
> Absolutely not true.  There are a number of insecticides that are currently
> used on crops that do NOT break down.  Some of these were originally thought
> to be safe, others are applied regardless of the fact.
> 
> I came into this discussion in the middle, but I gather someone was 
> proposing using insecticides to wipe out a disease carrying insect.

The original question was they hypothetical  `what if we found that AIDS
has a significant insect transmission vector?'  My response was that if
the incidence of the disease became great enough, we might have to consider
complete indoor quarantine of the affected individuals, as well as loading
their living areas with as much insecticide as it appeared that they could
stand for as long as they were likely to live, and that we would have to
consider ``environmentally disasterous'' use of pesticides as well, in order
to keep ourselves from being killed off completely.  It was a hypothetical
question, and I don't think that anyone here would like to be faced with the
choices.

My understanding is that, except in cases where *no substitute at all exists*,
all pesticides must degrade rapidly in the environment, and that no new
pesticide would be approved unless it met this critera.  Is this incorrect?
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