ve known for years that poisoning by acute high-level exposure to certain pesticides has well-established neurotoxic effects, yet they are being sprayed with a liberal hand to combat mosquitoes, and for a hundred other pests.
Might it be time for other, proven, alternatives? Many farmers have rendered the use of chemicals completely obsolete. Surely, getting rid of a pesky mosquito is easier than spending billions on more pesticide development and spraying, especially when there are non-chemical alternatives, like eliminating breeding spaces, and even planting naturally mosquito-repellent plants.
As significant resources are also filtered into pesticide campaigns, human health is gravely put at risk. Mosquito spraying that might lead to even more incidence of autism when one in every 68 children born is affected, is surely counterproductive.
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