Is fighting Malaria worth using dangerous chemicals?

Malaria kills alot of people worldwide still; and reading this:

http://www.medsocial.com/safe/viewblog.a...

I wanted to find out what other people thought. Should we use banned but effective means to fight it?

I think that malaria is such a devastating disease that yes, banned pesticides (DDT) that kill the mosquitos is acceptable in endemic areas.

DDT is not as toxic on birds as previously thought. No less toxic than selenium or other heavy metals that poision wetlands.

Malaria can kill quickly and it is becoming more and more resistant to the drugs that, 10 years ago, were highly effective.

I think it is interesting that they are doing this in Africa. Of course, I think it is horrible! Whatever happened to giving the person quinine for the malaria? My mother (born in 1904) had malaria as a child. She had to take quinine all her life, and she just did that. At that time, no one needed a prescription to get quinine. She was a very sickly child with the malaria bouts that sent her to bed for days and days, totally 'out of her head'. She was a very strong adult. She lived to be almost 90.