In Reply to: Thanks for that Chris posted by Rex on Tuesday, 23. August 2005 at 14:22 Bali Time:
I bought my can about three months ago. It was made in Australia.
When I was checking sites on the web about Malaria last year, pretty much all of them said that it was important to use a repellant that contains DEET, as this makes humans "invisible" (sic) to mosquitoes by blocking their olfactory senses.
I know there were some dodgy experiments done with DEET, which apparently remain "inconclusive", but I thought the main problem was that the people involved were exposed to more concentrated doses.
What info do you guys have about DEET, and why it was banned (yet still available until very recently)?