Thai farmers show signs of blood contamination from using toxic pesticides

Traces of toxic chemicals have been found in the blood of five out of every 100 farmers in Nakhon Ratchasima’s Bua Yai district, if results from tests across 132 villages are used as an indicator.

The Bua Yai district’s public-health office arranged blood tests yesterday after learning that local farmers had been using pesticides heavily recently. 

“There are many contamination cases,” the district’s public-health office chief Pongpipat Chumseeda said. 



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