The author of this article, Dr Sarah Mackenzie Ross, has done a lot of good work in terms of research on neurotoxic effects of chemical, and increasing awareness of the neurological damage that some environmental chemicals can cause.
The article is dedicated to Elizabeth Sigmund (1928–2017), who I spoke to on the phone 12 years ago, just after I had a nasty chronic exposure to organophosphate pesticides, when a bottle of malathion pesticide had been spilt in my home (malathion is particularly nasty when spilt indoors, because as it decomposes, it becomes 1000 times more toxic).
Elizabeth Sigmund was very kind and very helpful at that time, the only person I was able to get any useful information from. By contrast, the UK Health Protection Agency who I also contacted did not offer any help, and gave me no useful information at all.
Studies in Scotland showed that farmers using organophosphate-based sheep dip have a 4 times higher prevalence of ME/CFS than the national average. Ref:
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