During the past 20 years, American apple-growers and farmers have more than doubled their use of insecticides containing organophosphates, carbamates, propoxur or pyre-thins, and, at the same time, have suffered increasingly from aplastic anemia and leukemia.

Although there is no proof of cause-and-effect, according to aLancet (2:300) report, the evidence strongly suggests that many of these potentially fatal bone marrow disorders result from exposure to insecticide mist or fog. Malathion, DDVP, Raid, Holiday Fogger, and Baygon were among the household insecticides to which the aplastic anemia and leukemia victims were exposed. Children, it seems, are much more susceptible than adults, and insecticide inhalation is more dangerous for them than is contact with the skin. Most victims were exposed to mist or fog for only a few hours and did not begin to feel unwell until several days or weeks later.

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