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Cancer on the lawn Children from houses where hanging insecticidal strips are used are at almost twice the risk of developing leukaemia. The risk rises to threefold if the strips were used in the last three months of pregnancy. Dichlorvos, the main insecticide used in hanging strips is classified by the US Environmental Protection Agency as a human carcinogen.
[2009 May] Research exposes health problems of low level OP use
[2008 Dec] ANOTHER PESTICIDE LINKED TO DIABETES
Pesticide Nun
[Media UK, April 2003,
Pesticide poisoning] Georgina's fight against toxic peril
[Media UK, April 2003, Pesticide poisoning] Suffering and tragedy in a Kent village
[Media Aug 2001] COVER-UP (Organo-phosphorous poisoning disguised as Toxic Oil Syndrome)
[Media] Pesticide is linked to Parkinson's
[Media] Exposure to pesticides can cause birth defects and childhood cancers
[May 13, 2004] Barren Justice: Banana Workers Fight for Pesticide Settlement
Media Dec 2003 Benlate fungicide] Eyeless children championed by Observer win $7m test case
[Media Agent Orange]
What it did, according to the Hanoi government, is cause up to 500,000 children
to be born with congenital defects......Of the 60 to
100 births that take place every day at the hospital, at least one or two are
stillborn......The number of births of so-called Agent
Orange babies peaked in 1985, but there are still more
than 300 children born with birth defects at Tu Du Hospital every year.