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Pam wrote: >My mother developed Parkinson's Disease after the death of my brother. She >worked in a Chemistry Lab about 30 years before developing the disease. Her >dementia did not start until 7 years after onset though, but it began with >depression. Three of her friends worked in that Chemistry Lab and all have >Parkinson's Disease. With such a high incidence of PD in that lab group, it seems REAL important to ask what chemicals they were using?? Or what procedures and/or experiments they were involved in. Almost sounds like an MPTP lab or something. Did others work there also who haven't become parkinsonian (yet)? Wow, I bet if a group made a worker's comp claim stick for PD due to on-the-job hazards some bureaucratic-type folks would take notice. Our Young onset group has determined two prevelant chemical exposures that we have in common 1) plastic/epoxy/resin type stuff and 2) marijuana sprayed with paraquat during the Nixon administration - Operation Intercept. Kathie Tollifson [log in to unmask]