Open AccessPESTICIDES: Examining DDT’s Urogenital Effects
Author(s) -
Naomi Lubick
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
environmental health perspectives
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257
H-Index - 282
eISSN - 1552-9924
pISSN - 0091-6765
DOI - 10.1289/ehp.118-a18
Subject(s) - environmental health , malaria , geography , environmental protection , socioeconomics , medicine , immunology , sociology
A team of researchers has documented a variety of urogenital malformations in male babies born to women living in an area of South Africa where the potentially endocrine-disrupting pesticide DDT is still used. The team, reporting in a study published online 23 October 2009 in BJU International, believes the malformations may be connected to the mothers’ DDT exposure.
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