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From: Triantafillou, Stephanie

To: migrant_health_research@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 7:39 AM

Subject: [migrant_health_research] Pesticide Exposure in NC

Colleagues—

 

As many of you may be aware, farmworker health professionals and advocates in North Carolina have been following very closely the case of three farmworker women who were exposed to pesticides while pregnant and working in the fields and the potential link between this exposure and the birth of babies with birth defects.  Please find below links to a very recent article that appeared in the local newspaper about the case and a link to the official report released by the NC Division of Public Health who conducted an assessment of the three cases:

 

http://www.newsobserver.com/719story/442930.html

 

http://www.epi.state.nc.us/epi.oii.html

select Assessment of Maternal Occupational Pesticide Exposures during Pregnancy and Three Children with Birth Defects: North Carolina, 2004

 

We hope this will prompt you to monitor this issue in your respective states.

 

Sincerely,

 

 

Stephanie A. Triantafillou, MPH

Family/Community Partnership Specialist

East Coast Migrant Head Start Project

4901 Glenwood Avenue, Suite 300

Raleigh, North Carolina  27612

(919) 420-0334 ext. 274 phone

(919) 783-8441 fax

striantafillou@...

www.ecmhsp.org

 

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