Tracking Pesticide-Related Illness and Injury - Publications

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Reports

• Alternatives to the Use of Cyfluthrin to Control Thrips Damage in the Orange Growing Industry (PDF) – This consultant's report prepared for OHB describes non-chemical and less toxic alternatives to the use of cyfluthrin to control citrus thrips. (2008)
• Safety Of Pesticides Used To Control Adult Mosquitoes (PDF) (2006)
• Occupational Illness Among Flight Attendants Due to Aircraft Disinsection (PDF) (44-pages, 2003)
• The San Luis Obispo County Farmworker Survey (PDF)- Implementation of Worker Safety Regulations (144 pages, 2002) 
• Aircraft Disinsection (PDF) – Letter published in Bulletin of the World Health Organization (2001)
• Occupational Illness Due to Pesticide Drift from a Sprinkler Application of Metam-Sodium (PDF, Full report) ...  Spanish summary report (2001)
• Farm Worker Illness Following Exposure to Pesticide Drift in Kings County, California, 1999 (PDF, Full report) ...  Spanish summary report (2001)
• Skin Rash Due to a Spray Application of Pesticide Formulations (PDF) (2000)
• Pesticide Illness Due to Room Disinfection with Paraformaldehyde (PDF) (1999)

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Related topics in OHB's Occupational Health Watch newsletter

• Findings from OHB's pesticide illness tracking activities (PDF) –  Fall 2005, pages 2-3
• Health risks of pesticide use onboard airliners (PDF) – Summer 2004, Page 4
• Monitoring pesticide exposure with cholinesterase tests (PDF) –  Summer 2004, Page 11
• San Luis Obispo farm workers safety training (PDF) – Spring 2003, Page 6
• Pesticide drift; farm workers and others poisoned by pesticides (PDF) – Summer 2002, Page 2

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Journal articles

• Acute Pesticide Poisoning in the U.S. Retail Industry, 1998–2004 (PDF) (2007)
• Pesticide Illness Among Flight Attendants Due to Aircraft Disinsection (PDF) (2007)
• Worker Illness Related to Ground Application of Pesticide - MMWR Report (2006)
• Acute occupational pesticide-related illness in the US, 1998-1999 – journal article abstract (2004)
• Acute pesticide-related illnesses among working youths, 1988-1999 - journal article abstract (2003)
• Pesticide-related Illness among Migrant Farm Workers in the United State (PDF) (2001)
• Farm Worker Illness following exposure to Carbofuran and Other Pesticides – MMWR Report (1999)

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Other

• Pesticide Illness: A comprehensive educational curriculum for health care providers. Copies are also available on CD (see web link for information)
• Pesticide Illness Among Farmworkers in the United States and California (PDF)  - poster (2002)

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