Humans

Von 2001 bis 2015 hat sich die Zahl der autistischen Kinder an den öffentlichen Schulen des US-Bundesstaats Kalifornien versechseinhalbfacht. Woran liegt das? Impfgegner sagen: Es liegt an den Impfungen. Eine Studie verweist auf zusätzliche Umwelteinflüsse. Mehr als 90.000 Schüler in Kalifornien waren im Jahr 2015 Autisten. Noch im Jahr 2001 waren es lediglich rund 14.000. Dies zeigen die Daten des kalifornischen Bildungsministeriums (California Department of Education). Der beängstigende Anstieg von jährlich sieben Prozent und mehr wirft viele Fragen auf.

Pregnant women living within one kilometer (0.62 miles) of fields where certain pesticides are applied have children who show a measurable decrease in IQ and verbal comprehension skills by the time they are seven years old, according to a new study by the Center for Environmental Research and Children’s Health at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health. The study team looked at 283 women and children from the agricultural Salinas Valley enrolled in the long-term Center for the Health of Mothers and Children in Salinas (CHAMACOS) study.

Humans have reduced biodiversity—the teeming variety of plant and animal life that competes and co-operates in every ecosystem—to below safe levels across more than 58% of the planet’s land surface.

Neonics have been found to affect mammalian nicotinic acetylcholine receptors nAChRs in a way that is similar to the effects of nicotine. These receptors are of critical importance to human brain function, especially during development and for memory, cognition, and behavior. A distinct aspect of neonic toxicity is the ability to bind to the most prominent subtype of nAChRs in mammals, the α4β2, which is found in the highest density in the thalamus.

This study was undertaken to explore relationships between level of imidacloprid in the serum and semen quality among men farmers in addition to investigating histopathological findings in treated mature male rats. Our research entailed two parts; firstly, human part done on farm workers (n=35) with age between (Mean ± SD 34.3±6.4) and healthy volunteers (n=25) their ages were (35.6±8.2) years old asked to provide semen and blood samples.

There is a growing concern that exposure to environmental chemicals in early life may interfere with brain development. In particular, neonicotinoid pesticides have drawn considerable attention. As a pesticide class, neonicotinoids are designed to overstimulate insect nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs). These pesticides were previously thought to be relatively harmless to mammalian species because of their low binding affinities to mammalian nAChRs.

Sri Lanka’s newly elected President Maithripala Sirisena announced last year that the import of the World’s most used herbicide glyphosate will be banned with immediate effect. The release of already imported stocks has also been stopped. Sirisena, a farmer and ex Health Minister, stated that glyphosate is responsible for the increasing number of chronic kidney disease (CKDu) patients in Sri Lanka and added that the move would protect the Sri Lankan farming community.

"Kids are on the frontline in Minnesota," the Pesticide Action Network warns in a recently released report on the effects of children's exposure to pesticides. "Kids are more vulnerable to chemical exposure," Lex Horan of the Pesticide Action Network told a Park Rapids area audience this week. "They haven't developed the biological defense mechanisms. When kids are exposed at a critical moment of development it can have a lifelong effect." The report's review of government health trend data and recent academic research found: