Time for a closer look at Pyrethroid insecticides

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-01/cums-tfa010320.php

News Release 3-Jan-2020
Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health

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a recent study on Pyrethroid, among the most widely used insecticides in the world for public health control of vector-borne illnesses, including West Nile virus. While the insecticides are generally regarded as posing low health risks to humans in ordinary exposure situations, a recent study reported a 50 percent increase in total mortality and three-fold increase in heart disease deaths in persons with high urinary levels of 3-PBA, a metabolic product of pyrethroids indicative of human exposure.

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