The whole bald eagle or malaria dichotomy is false. Any country that has an actual malaria problem can use DDT to control it, if they think it is effective (however it is becoming less and less effective, because mosquitoes are becoming resistant to it). Some of these countries still use DDT. The US eradicated malaria from our borders by other means long time ago.
In the US the debate about DDT was whether to use it as a pesticide. So the choice was about killing the bald eagles and most of our other birds, or slightly increasing pest control costs for farmers and people with lawns.
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The whole bald eagle or malaria dichotomy is false. Any country that has an actual malaria problem can use DDT to control it, if they think it is effective (however it is becoming less and less effective, because mosquitoes are becoming resistant to it). Some of these countries still use DDT. The US eradicated malaria from our borders by other means long time ago.
In the US the debate about DDT was whether to use it as a pesticide. So the choice was about killing the bald eagles and most of our other birds, or slightly increasing pest control costs for farmers and people with lawns.