Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 12:27:59 -0600
From:  "Chris Gregory" <GregoryC@husd4.k12.il.us>
To:  <webmistress@getipm.com>


My grandmother, Elizabeth Phillips and her brother Richard Kingsbury were raised on a sheep farm in St. John's, Michigan. Brother and sister worked side by side. Their job was to wash the wool of the herd during sheering time. They used an organophosphate sheep dip. She points out that she never asked what the chemicals they used were, but her father told her it prevented bugs from living in the wool. Both Elizabeth and Richard now suffer from parkinsons disease.

During a recent ranch reunion we learned that five other people who had worked in the wool cleaning, and were not a part of the family had also developed parkinsons.

What scares me even more, because we now know about this, is that I recently learned that the flea dip used on my dogs, is the same organophosphate. How strange that we haven't learned our lessons yet.


Christine Gregory
HHS Chemical, Physical, Earth, and Environmental Sciences
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