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Subject:  Pesticides and death in Brazil
Date:   Mon, 18 Oct 2004 10:46:41 -0200
From:  "Ricardo Marques" <ricardobmarques@uol.com.br>

Dear friends:

In Brazil, each year we have thousands of people dying because the use of pesticides. In the South there is an epidemic case of suicide of men for years and years, and the studies comproved that it was because the pesticides. In Northeast, as Ibiapaba plate (Ceara state), people die because cancer (specially leuchemia) and degenerative diseases because the use of pesticides. And much more. Why we don't see references to Brazil between the cases related in the site? Unfortunately, we are sure that in all the world, probably we are the country with the largest use of pesticides and with the largest number of victims...

Prof. Ricardo B. Marques
Brazilian biologist

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