Dr. Len Horowotz Calls West Nile Virus Pesticide Spraying
Program "Madness"
NEWS RELEASE
From Elaine Zacky <pr@tetrahedron.org>
http://educate-yourself.org/cn/horowitzaudiowestnilevirus11aug02.shtml
August 6, 2002
Sandpoint, Idaho. News reports about threatened West Nile Virus (WNV)
infections spreading across America have missed the much greater risks
posed by chemical sprayings.
This mosquito control program is "madness" according to a leading public
health authority whose proof is in a new
book being donated to libraries and legislators nationwide.
Dr. Leonard G. Horowitz, a Harvard graduate independent investigator,
and author of more than thirteen books including the national bestseller,
Emerging Viruses: AIDS & Ebola, says spraying pesticides to
combat mosquitoes suspected of carrying the West Nile Virus (WNV) has
not been scientifically proven to be either safe for humans or effective
against the disease. Spraying malathion, a suspected human chemical
carcinogen and known immune system blocker, or its alternate, Anvil 10:10,
violates a basic tenant of public health practice that requires foreknowledge
of the risks and proven benefits of the policy before it is implemented,
he says.
There is substantial evidence linking exposure to these airborne chemicals
to cancer and genetic damage, the doctor maintains. For this reason he
has urged political andpublic health officials to stop what he calls "imprudent
practices that are clearly lethal to people."
In support of his activism, the publisher of Dr. Horowitz's Death
in the Air (Tetrahedron; 1-888-508-4787) has donated more than 1,000
copies to libraries and legislators. His documentation comes "highly recommended"
in the July, 2002 issue of LIBRARY JOURNAL, the nation's leading academic
library periodical.
Henry A. Wallace of the Institute for Alternative Agriculture
has also voiced concern saying, "I think people, by now, would know that
heavy applications of pesticide have not been the right way to go"....
Spraying people with pesticide that do not want to be sprayed must be morally
wrong."
Dr. Horowitz says, "This spraying policy violates ethical, moral, and
scientific standards. To give people the proof and power to resist this
madness, I've even lifted the copyright on the book. People should photocopy
and circulate the stunning evidence at townhall meetings for the benefit
of their communities and conscientious policy makers considering or debating
this pesticide spraying issue."
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