No, DDT won’t save us from the Zika virus

If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the last decade-plus of blogging about medicine and alternative medicine, it’s that any time there is an outbreak or pandemic of infectious disease, there will inevitably follow major conspiracy theories about it. It happened during the H1N1 pandemic in the 2009-2010 influenza season, the Ebola outbreak in late…

Source: Respectful Insolence - February 22, 2016 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Biology Medicine Politics Popular culture Source Type: blogs