hi all interestingly there also was a thread of messages on the mgh webforum recently about environmental toxins and pd i meant to cross-post my comment at the time janet ------------------ From: janet313313 Date: January 10, 2001 09:12 PM Subj: I JUST GOT ANGRY fwiw yes lots of environmental chemicals (and pesticides) were banned in the so-called developed world but they were and are still being sold to the so-called third world i was exposed to 'Baygon' (made by Bayer UK) in Bermuda in 1981 and i manifested symptoms in 1984. Baygon is sold throughout the caribbean using patronizing tv commercials showing the happy housewife spraying Baygon around as if it were room-freshener we are our brothers' keeper people count more than money janet janet paterson, an akinetic rigid subtype parkie 53 now / 44 dx cd / 43 onset cd / 41 dx pd / 37 onset pd TEL: 613 256 8340 SMAIL: POBox 171 Almonte Ontario K0A 1A0 Canada EMAIL: [log in to unmask] URL: http://www.geocities.com/janet313/ ------------------ http://neuro-mancer.mgh.harvard.edu/ubb/Forum71/HTML/003273.html janet paterson, an akinetic rigid subtype parkie 53 now / 44 dx cd / 43 onset cd / 41 dx pd / 37 onset pd TEL: 613 256 8340 SMAIL: PO Box 171 Almonte Ontario K0A 1A0 Canada EMAIL: [log in to unmask] URL: http://www.geocities.com/janet313/