Abstract

An examination of hospital records at Ngaoundere in Cameroon showed that there were 51 reported cases of pesticide poisoning in a 27-month period (January 2004 to April 2006) and of those, only two deaths were attributed to insecticides. One feature was that apart from a high proportion of unidentified poisons, rodenticide poisoning was reported more often than other pesticides. Many cases of poisoning might go unrecorded if an individual does not go to hospital.

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