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Tracy Hampton, PhD

JAMA. 2005;293:2992.

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A new study involving 18 782 farmers in North Carolina and Iowa has revealed that agricultural insecticides can cause neurological symptoms, even when the products are no longer being used. The research, part of the ongoing Agricultural Health Study funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, the National Cancer Institute, and the Environmental Protection Agency, will be published in Environmental Health Perspectives (http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/).

A new study of farmers indicates that exposure to agricultural insecticides can cause a variety of neurological symptoms. (Photo credit: Jeff Vanuga/USDA NRCS)

Farmers completed questionnaires that asked about lifetime exposure to herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, and fumigants and their history of 23 neurological symptoms. The data collected linked use of insecticides, including organophosphates and organochlorines, to reports of recurring headaches, fatigue, insomnia, dizziness, nausea, hand tremors, numbness, and other neurological symptoms.

Such symptoms were not found to be associated with herbicides . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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