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Awareness programme on pesticides [1]

Poisoning deaths related to pesticides have increased in recent years. The National Hospital's Poison and Drugs Information Centre reported that the males were involved in most intentional poisoning deaths or poison related suicides in the country. They fall to the age category of 20 years to 29 the sources noted.

Publication Date: 
17/06/2008
Daily News (Sri Lanka) [2]
Tags:
Pesticides [3], Pesticide Poisoning [4], Sri Lanka [5]
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