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Pesticides linked to allergic asthma


January 3, 2008

Women who come in contact with commonly used pesticides during farmwork may be at an increased risk of allergic asthma. Researchers from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences recorded the prevalence of asthma in more than 25,000 female farmworkers in North Carolina and Iowa.....

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