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Coumaphos is a nonvolatile, fat-soluble phosphorothioate with ectoparasiticide properties: it kills insects and mites. It is well known by a variety of brand names as a dip or wash, used on farm and domestic animals to control ticks, mites, flies and fleas.
On the basis of a survey of self-reported minor poisoning carried out in the Asian region, it is estimated that there could be as many as 25 million agricultural workers in the developing world suffering an episode of poisoning each year." [5] In Canada in 2007 more than 6000 cases of acute pesticide poisoning occurred. [40]
Temefos or temephos (trade name Abate) is an organophosphate larvicide used to treat water infested with disease-carrying insects [2] including mosquitoes, midges, and black fly larvae.
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Phosmet is a phthalimide-derived, non-systemic, organophosphate insecticide used on plants and animals. It is mainly used on apple trees for control of codling moth, though it is also used on a wide range of fruit crops, ornamentals, and vines for the control of aphids, suckers, [clarification needed] mites, and fruit flies.
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Major inroads are required to advance the development of successful medications and drug protocols for strongyloidiasis and other neglected tropical diseases. [38] Contagiousness via textiles, unlike Enterobius vermicularis, is unfounded. As is, generally speaking, person-to-person contagiousness of asymptomatic and disseminated infection.
A refugee mother and three of her children living in Utah were killed by her husband in an apparent murder-suicide this month. A 17-year-old boy survived the incident with serious injuries.