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Hi Hilary: My husband grew up on the farm and started very early "working"....driving tractor at 8 and combine by 12. Therefore, he was exposed to all the fertilizers, pesticides etc. at a time when they did not use much in the way of "safe handling" (he is now 50). It is my opinion that this may have lead to his PD. He has 4 other brothers...non of which have PD....but non of them "worked" on the farm the way my husband did. It is........ MY OPINION.......... that "our" generation is getting PD earlier than our parent's generation because they were not exposed to the chemicals at the early age that we were.....therefore they have basically gotten PD at an older age. I agree that dwelling on the "source" of the disease is counter productive to dealing with the disease....but none of us can say that we aren't at least curious as to "why or how" ;o) Juelie McLean CG/Dan 50/dx98 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >I can't quote chapter and verse, but I believe there have been some cases of >people being exposed to fertilizers, and various other agricultural and >horticultural chemicals developing PD symptoms. Can anybody out there back >me up? >hiLary bLue(50,33,24) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~