Volume 11, 2000
Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Meeting
John R. Danley
Pages 131-141
Risk v. Risk: DDT and Malaria
Virtually every attempt at risk reduction creates countervailing risks, shifting either the nature of the risk and/or the population exposed. This paper will explore and clarify some of the issues of safety, risk, and countervailing risk, by examining the contentious dispute which recently erupted between those supporting international efforts to ban a number of dreaded chemicals, including, DDT, and those supporting the limited use of DDT (spraying inside homes). The paper defends the limited use of DDT.