I've been expressing my suspicions to my family for years regarding the possible correlation of my summer ritual of running behind the mosquito fogger and my chronic health problems today. That no parents thought to tell us to stay clear boggles my mind. Nobody gave it a second thought.
I just out of curiosity was reading about DDT, as a show I was watching triggered my memory as a child, when living in CFB Petawawa,from 1960 to 1963, recall my twin sister and I also running behind the fogger,on the street that ran along the Ottawa river with other kids.I was surprised to find others had the same childhood memories.
Is it possible to delete "Dauandwa" comment date Jun 17, 2017? This comment is a commercial advertisement having nothing to do with DDT Mosquito Fogger and all comments following Dauandwa show nothing but garble. I believe this comment has been planted to disrupt this Forum.
I was born in Trenton and lived in Middleton Park from '53 to '59. I remember watching kids run behind the fogger truck on my street. It was DDT that was used at that time, thinking now how insane that was and what the physical ramifications were from breathing it.
I lived in CFB Borden youngest of eight My sister Norma died of lung cancer my brother died of lung cancer and my dad I have a lump on my lung when my sister was in the hospital they did a biopsy and she was dead the next day my brother had biopsy he said it was a different kind of cancer and not from smoking all in a nut shell we used to hear that truck coming from far away and we would be in it for blocks and blocks until we were dripping with oil from mosquito truck
