HEALTH: Study Reveals Pesticides Raise Child Risk of Leukaemia

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HEALTH: Study Reveals Pesticides Raise Child Risk of Leukaemia

 

UK: January 17, 2006

LONDON - Exposure to pesticides in the womb or as a child can double the risk of

developing acute leukaemia, French scientists said on Tuesday. They discovered

that children born to women who used insecticides in the home while pregnant and

after the birth were nearly twice as likely as other youngsters to develop

leukaemia. Even insecticidal shampoos to kill head lice raised the odds of the

disease.

" The results ... support the hypothesis that various types of insecticide

exposure may be a risk factor for childhood acute leukaemia, " said Dr Florence

Menegaux, of the research institute INSERM Villejuif, France, in a report in the

journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

The researchers discovered the link after interviewing the mothers of 280

children who had been diagnosed with leukaemia and of 288 healthy children. They

found that youngsters exposed to fungicides and garden insecticides had more

than double the risk of the illness than other children.

 

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