High Risk of Parkinson's Disease for People Exposed to Pesticides Near Workplace

[DeSwiss]

High Risk of Parkinson's Disease for People Exposed to Pesticides Near Workplace
Pesticide Ziram Implicated as Possible Cause for Disease

Science Daily
May 26, 2011



In April 2009, researchers at UCLA announced they had discovered a link between Parkinson's disease and two chemicals commonly sprayed on crops to fight pests. That epidemiological study didn't examine farmers who constantly work with pesticides but people who simply lived near where farm fields were sprayed with the fungicide maneb and the herbicide paraquat. It found that the risk for Parkinson's disease for these people increased by 75 percent.

Now a follow-up study adds two new twists. Once again the researchers returned to California's fertile Central Valley, and for the first time have implicated a third pesticide, ziram, in the pathology of Parkinson's disease. Second, instead of looking just at whether people lived near fields that were sprayed, they looked at where people worked, including teachers, firefighters and clerks who worked near, but not in, the fields.

They found that the combined exposure to ziram, maneb and paraquat near any workplace increased the risk of Parkinson's disease (PD) threefold, while combined exposure to ziram and paraquat alone was associated with an 80 percent increase in risk. The results appear in the current online edition of the European Journal of Epidemiology.

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- It amazes me how some people are just now figuring out that putting poisons on food will probably make people sick.......

DeSwiss




"I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should
face up to that." ~ http://www.whirledbank.org/ourwords/summers.html">Lawrence Summers, Chief economist of the World Bankin an internal memo, 12 December 1991

[murielm99]

1. I know lots of older farmers with Parkinson's.

They sprayed chemicals on their crops for years. They don't need no stinkin' study to know what happened.