Abstract
Of clinical cases of pesticide poisoning at rural hospitals across the country, it has been requested to provide reports on 31 cases the course of which had been of interest.
By type of pesticide, the number of cases is 3 for fenitrothion, 1 for DDVP, 1 for vamidothion, 2 for malathion, 1 for trichlorfon, 1 for cyanophos, 1 for phenthoate, carbaryl, and edifenphos, 1 for leptophos, 1 for ortho-dichloro-benzene and dichlorvos, 1 for fenthion anal carbamates, 2 for methomyl, 2 for nicotine sulfate, I for calcium polysulfide, 1 for blasticidin S, 1 eye injury for paraquat and chloropicrin, and 11 for paraquat.
One grave factor today is a sharp rise in the prevalence of poisoning with paraquat, which in most cases is used for suicide. Of late, there have also appeared cases in which death eventually results from the spraying of paraquat.
