Human Immune System not immune to Malathion

MALATHION

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IMPURITIES IN MALATHION FOUND TO DISABLE THE BODY'S NATURAL ABILITY TO DETOXIFY MALATHION
SOURCE: Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, 49, 107-112 (1979)

Once malathion enters the body, it needs to be removed so harm is minimized. This is the job performed in part by enzymes in the liver of all organisms. However, this research showed that the malathion impurities - to quote the scientists - "diminish the activities of the enzymes involved in the malathion detoxification." In other words, the impurities damage the body's natural way of detoxifying the poison with the end result being the chemical stays in the body for longer periods of time when exposure is to the technical grade malathion and especially if subjected to heat and long duration storage.
Division of Toxicology and Physiology, University of California, Riverside

MALATHION UNDERGOES DANGEROUS REACTION IN SUNLIGHT

Malathion undergoes a chemical reaction in sunlight called "photolysis" which results in increasing the formation of the highly toxic trimethyl impurities. - Journal of Agricultural Food & Chemistry, 27(6):1423

Report Links Pesticides with Immune System Problems
SOURCE: SCIENCE NEWS, March 9, 1996

According to a report by the Washington, D.C. based group, World Resources Institute (WRI), many pesticides appear to be increasing the incidence of infections, pneumonia, ear infections, and tuberculosis. The three pesticides listed as causing this problem were DDT, malathion, and the pesticide aldicarb. A summary of the report, appearing in the March 9, 1996 issue of Science News, outlined many of the studies linking pesticides with weakening of the immune system. One of the groups commissioned researchers, Dr. Lyudmila Kovtyukh, of the Academy of Sciences in Kishinev, Moldova (a republic between Romania and Ukraine), found that children living in areas where pesticides had been most heavily applied experienced elevated rates of acute respiratory diseases (including pneumonia), as well as many other signs of immune system weakness. If you would like to read the entire March 9, 1996, SCIENCE NEWS article, it has been placed on the internet by SCIENCE NEWS and can be seen by clicking Science News Immune System Toxicology.

Immune System Weakens after Malathion Exposure
SOURCE: The Journal of Immunology, 140(2):564-570

Technical grade malathion contains chemical impurities which have been found to weaken immune system function, including a weakening of a type of white blood cell called "cytotoxic lymphocytes" (which attack cancer cells and virus infected cells). The picture at right shows six of these white cytotoxic lymphocytes (let's call them CTL's for short) successfully attacking a cancer cell (National Geographic). These lymphocytes can also attack viruses in the body. Malathion has now been shown to significantly weaken the CTL's ability to perform their job effectively.

Chem-Tox Comments: Obviously, the consequences of not having lymphocytes remove viruses or cancer efficiently could result from either mild to serious health disorders.
University of Virginia
Inhibition of Cytotoxic T Lymphocyte and Natural Killer Cell Mediated Lysis by OSS-Trimethyl Phosphorodithioate is at an Early Postrecognition Step.

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(Opinion: If you not outraged by what you've been reading, then you're not paying attention. - Get angry and stay angry. They (chemical companies) are marketing Malathion for use on children and adults for lice and scabies.)

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