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From: "Mark Plus" <>
Subject: Guardian: Pollutants cause huge rise in brain diseases 
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 08:52:13 -0700

http://www.guardian.co.uk/medicine/story/0,11381,1283588,00.html

Pollutants cause huge rise in brain diseases

Scientists alarmed as number of cases triples in 20 years

Juliette Jowit, environment editor
Sunday August 15, 2004
The Observer

The numbers of sufferers of brain diseases, including Alzheimer's, 
Parkinson's and motor neurone disease, have soared across the West in less 
than 20 years, scientists have discovered.

The alarming rise, which includes figures showing rates of dementia have 
trebled in men, has been linked to rises in levels of pesticides, industrial 
effluents, domestic waste, car exhausts and other pollutants, says a report 
in the journal Public Health.

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