Since its publication, Silent Spring has been an endless source of discussion and controversy, and it is not our aim to argue its accuracy or even its legacy, one way or the other. It should be noted, however, that the extensive agricultural use of DDT, rather than the extremely limited public health use, is what drove the environmental effects and the resulting movement against it. But by 1970, several years into the Silent Spring/DDT-banning era, the public health community declared victory over Ae. aegypti and moved on to other priorities.
