Severe acute illness in a toddler exposed to multiple agricultural pesticides and an insect repellent

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• Personal Author:
  Calvert, Geoffrey M. ; Morrissey BF ; Sievert JS
• Description:
  Acute severe pesticide-related illness among farm worker children is rarely reported. The authors report a toddler with acute onset of apnea, cyanosis, somnolence, hypotonia, tachycardia, and miosis who required hospitalization. Health care providers suspected pesticide poisoning, but were unable to determine the causal agent. Investigation by a public health program documented four pesticide exposures that occurred within one-half hour of acute illness. This case illustrates the importance of a thorough environmental/occupational exposure history and obtaining biological samples. It also documents the need to strengthen the Worker Protection Standard for agricultural workers and the importance of reporting and investigating pesticide-related illness. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Agriculture Environmental Exposure Farmers Insecticides Occupational Health Poisoning Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety
• Keywords:
  Agricultural-chemicals Agricultural-industry Agricultural-products Author Keywords: Carbaryl Biological-effects Children Environmental-exposure Exposure-levels Farm Workers Humans Insecticide-poisoning Orchard Pesticides Pesticides-and-agricultural-chemicals Poisons Risk-factors Surveillance-programs Workers

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• ISSN:
  1059-924X
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 5 ; Washington
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSHEFS - Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  285-292
• Volume:
  18
• Issue:
  4
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20043291
• Citation:
  J Agromedicine 2013 Oct; 18(4):285-292
• Contact Point Address:
  Barbara F. Morrissey, MS, Office of Environmental Health, Safety and Toxicology, Washington State Department of Health, PO Box 47846, Olympia, WA 98504-7846
• Email:
  barbara.morrissey@doh.wa.gov
• CAS Registry Number:
  Carbaryl (CAS RN 63-25-2)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2014
• NORA Priority Area:
  Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing
• Performing Organization:
  Washington State Department of Labor and Industries
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Agromedicine
• End Date:
  20260630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:f98e34831ceb0638c45b8ecbb45ffbb056c5cebb2981ab49ffb5d1eed9a62c907ea66902ee2c88a41c6dd3b70f9bd88201fae644c456efbddbfbb7350061b911
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/195220/cdc_195220_DS1.pdf
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