Background Human poisoning by pesticides has long been seen as a severe public health
problem. As early as 1990, a task force of the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated …

Poisoning from pesticides is a global public health problem and accounts for nearly 300,000
deaths worldwide every year. Exposure to pesticides is inevitable; there are different modes …

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Pesticides are a group of chemicals used predominantly in agriculture and against vectors in
vectorborne diseases such as malaria, filariasis, etc. There are several definitions of a …

Chemical pesticides have been a boon to equatorial, developing nations in their efforts to
eradicate insect-borne, endemic diseases, to produce adequate food and to protect forests …

Background Between 1950 and 1995 suicide rates in Sri Lanka increased 8-fold to a peak of
47 per 100 000 in 1995. By 2005, rates had halved. We investigated whether Sri Lanka's …

Agriculture Pollutes: pesticides can destroy wildlife and some are toxic to humans; some
fungicides and herbicides cause cancer. Nitrates result in the contamination of drinking …

Abstract Introduction: The agricultural Green Revolution in the 1950s and 60s is thought to
have averted many deaths from famine. However, it also introduced highly hazardous …

Many developing countries are experiencing what Omran described as the epidemiologic
transition, where" the Old World epidemics of infection are progressively replaced by …

Acute pesticide poisoning is a major public health problem in Sri Lanka. In several
agricultural districts, it precedes all other causes of death in government hospitals. Most of …