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In Borneo in the early 1950’s, the World Health Organization was faced with the problem of malaria among the Dayak people. They had an answer that was short, simple, and wrong, which was to spray DDT all over the place and kill the mosquitoes that carried malaria. The mosquito population declined, the incidence of malaria declined, and everybody declared the program a success. They discovered, however, that the roofs of people’s houses were falling in on their heads. It seems that the DDT has poisoned wasps, which parasitized thatch-eating caterpillars. Without the wasps the caterpillars proliferated, they ate thatch in the roofs, and the roofs fell in. The World Health Organization found it had a much worse problem, than thatch-eating caterpillars or even malaria outbreaks. The DDT had built up in the food chain. It got into the insects, which were eaten by little lizards called geckos, which were eaten by cats. The cats died, the rats flourished, and the World Health Organization was faced with an outbreak of sylvatic plague and typhus, which it had created. It was then obliged to parachute live cats into Borneo. The lesson one should draw is that in many instances, the cause of the problem is prior solutions that were not thought out well enough. All things interact, often in ways we don’t understand. If we understand interactions better, the solutions we come up with will go farther than we might initially have thought. The solutions can then beget more solutions. “More than 2 million Americans become seriously ill every year from toxic reactions to correctly prescribed medications taken properly, and 106,000 + die from those reactions.” —JAMA (printed in the Washington Post)The solution to good health lies in eliminating interference from the body, not creating it.