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> > In reply to Alvin's posting on possible environmental causes---my mom who > has Parkinson's spent all of her summers on her grandmother's farm, where > there were no indoor toilets, and probably lived in homes for much of her > childhood that were equipped with outhouses. The possibility of a rural > connection will be interesting, but her sister who grew up in exactly the same > environment and is slightly older has no signs of PD. Mary Vass And my mother also grew up in a rural area and lived in homes with outhouses for probably the first 25 years of her life. But again, she has 6 siblings, none of whom had PD -- though her brother died of Alzheimers, which I think also is suspected of environmental causes. -- Ellen Mizzell