Mystery of America’s ‘Parkinson’s Belt’ Where Chemicals ‘Are · Parkinson's Resource Organization

In multiple pockets across the country, scientists are watching a disturbing trend emerge - Parkinson's rates are soaring...

In multiple pockets across the country, scientists are watching a disturbing trend emerge - Parkinson's rates are soaring. Experts suspect exposure to farming chemicals and factory fumes are to blame for the U-shaped portion of the US where rates of the debilitating disease are nearly 50 percent higher than national averages. Southern California, the sunbelt and rustbelt states make up the region which experts are calling America's 'Parkinson's Belt'. Dr Tim Greenamyre, the director of the Pittsburgh Institute for Neurodegenerative diseases, had been conducting lab studies on one of the…

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