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Rural wells and Parkinson’s disease are linked in study

August 5, 2009

LOS ANGELES — Rural residents who drink water from private wells are “much more likely” to have Parkinson’s disease, a finding that bolsters theories that farm pesticides may be partially to blame, according to new research from a University of California at Los Angeles-led team of scientists, an August 5 Environmental Health News (EHN) article said.

Over the past few years, a growing body of evidence has led experts to suspect that agricultural pesticides can attack developing brains, perhaps in the womb or infancy, leading to Parkinson's disease later in life. Many insecticides widely used on farms are potent neurotoxins, and lab animals exposed to mixes of them develop Parkinson’s symptoms.

Also, several previous studies of farmers and rural residents have reported a link.

The new study of more than 700 people in California’s Central Valley found that those who likely consumed contaminated private well water had a higher rate of Parkinson’s. The risk was around 90 percent higher for those whose drinking water came from private wells near fields sprayed with the widely used insecticides propargite or chlorpyrifos.

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