(In "Silent Spring" she cites a pesticide trade publication welcoming the fire-ant eradication program as a "sales bonanza").
Indeed, both the fire-ant-eradication program in the South and the spraying in the Middle West against the Japanese beetle had precisely this effect; the former permitted the sugar-cane borer to gain a foothold, and the latter resulted in an enormous increase in the corn borer.
By Jon Lee Anderson While destroying a field of opium poppies in Uruzgan Province, members of the Afghan Eradication Force came under fire in an ambush apparently orchestrated by the Taliban.
The US, for example, underwent many environmental tragedies throughout the last century, including the great Mississippi flood of 1927, the Great Plains dust storms dubbed the Dust Bowl in the "dirty thirties", the Cuyahoga river fire of 1969, and the partial eradication of birds and reduction of biodiversity by noxious pesticides in the mid 20th century.
As Bill Foege described in his recent history of smallpox eradication in West Africa and India ("House on Fire: the Fight to Eradicate Smallpox"), "David Sencer… always found creative ways to provide the needed equipment, people and support.
Ayesha Raza, spokeswoman for Pakistan's polio eradication program, said the attack, which left three others injured, occurred when two armed men on motorcycles opened fire on the workers' van as they traveled to meet a police escort.
Mr. Holbrooke said the United States would begin phasing out eradication efforts, which generally have involved spraying or plowing under poppy fields, often under fire from Taliban militants or angry farmers.
In this case, too, the word "eradication" came easily from the department's mimeograph machines, and this time it was applied to the fire ant.
Eradication and exclusion of host plants has been useful against citrus canker, angular leaf spot of cotton, fire blight, and crown gall.
