PMID: 12765866May 27, 2003Paper

Chronic fatigue and organophosphate pesticides in sheep farming: a retrospective study amongst people reporting to a UK pharmacovigilance scheme

The Annals of Occupational Hygiene
N TahmazJ W Cherrie

Abstract

The Department of Health has recently published a report from the CFS/ME Working Group which concluded that chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) should be recognized as a chronic illness. Symptoms consistent with CFS are often reported by people who consider their health has been affected by exposure to pesticides, but the Working Group concluded that this type of exposure is not a common trigger for the syndrome. The Veterinary Medicines Directorate (VMD) collects self-assessed reports of ill health in humans associated with veterinary medicines under their Suspected Adverse Reaction Surveillance Scheme. The reporters have mainly been sheep farmers. These reports were used to investigate the possible relationship between chronic fatigue (CF) and exposure to organophosphate pesticides in sheep farming. The overall aim of the study was to investigate a possible association between exposure to organophosphates and the development of CF amongst people who consider their health has been affected by pesticides in sheep farming. The hypothesis investigated was that repeated exposure to organophosphate pesticides in sheep dip may increase the probability of developing CF. A group of mostly sheep farmers who had reported to the VMD surveilla...Continue Reading

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