Still used to control lice on kids and fleas on pets. The Leukemia Society s brochure states the only two known causes of leukemia are radiation and benzene. Please see the radioactive note later in this chapter and the benzene note earlier in this chapter. In the 1993, Vol. 24 issue of Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology a study documented a relationship between childhood brain cancers in Missouri children. It can accumulate in the fatty tissue of fish.
Pesticides are poisons that, obviously, kill more than what they are labeled for.