Environment

Psychological Factors Important in Environmental Health Cases

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, March 27th, 2000

The symptoms of health center workers who believed that they were sickened by pesticides were more psychosomatic than medical in origin, say CDC researchers investigating the case.

"Employees at a health center in Georgia were concerned that symptoms experienced by some employees were related to pesticide exposure at the center," according to L.S. Balluz and colleagues at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ("Health complaints related to pesticide stored at a public health clinic," Environmental Research, January 2000;82(1):1-6).

From 1969 to 1981, the center had used DDT and malathion to control the mosquito population, and...

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