Pesticides, Multiple Chemical Sensitivity and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

A study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology of 3,531 British veterans of the Gulf war and the war in Bosnia shows that the incidence of "Multiple Chemical Sensitivity was particularly associated with Gulf deployment and self-reported exposure to pesticides."

Another study published in the Annals of Occupation Hygiene shows that the incidence of chronic fatigue is correlated to exposure to organophosphate pesticides.

Organophosphates are potent neurotoxins and are used in various pesticides, herbicides and nerve gases which works by inhibiting the acetylcholinesterase function in nerve cells.