AEI's Roger Bate highlights a peer-reviewed paper in Research and Reports in Tropical Medicine which exposes false claims about an insecticide-free malaria control project in Mexico and Central America.

DDT is still a critical weapon in the battle against malaria and other insect-borne diseases.

Ending the use of DDT in malarious areas may pose great risks to the health and welfare of people and would be based on flawed analysis.

In late May, a deadly mutant strain of E. coli broke out in Germany and spread across at least 12 countries. The bacterium, which is more toxic and infectious than any other known strain of E coli, left 1,800 infected and 18 dead by early June.

The United Nations plans to advocate drastic reductions in the use of DDT, which kills or repels the mosquitoes that spread malaria.

Leadership is a wonderful thing, but it is truly found when it is tested, and on that count malaria leadership has failed.

This week's UN Environment Program meeting on insecticide use will surely be enlivened by the Southern African Development Community's recent decision to start producing DDT to combat malarial mosquitoes.

Activist groups should join together in support of an anti-malaria insecticide that could save millions of lives.