Bee, true, I'm not sure about the landscapers - I had once heard that nurses and teachers were the most common occupations of Morgies (?), so that aspect doesn't make sense. But as you saw on that other post, a lot of people started chiming in w/their agrobacterium-infection-connection. Theirs, not mine. Pesticide explains the widespread, global geographic distribution of cases. Plus, that agrobac is published to have been found in patients. Agrobac also in pesticides, seems logical...I really want answers, so far that is my best one, but if someone has a better, factual source to blame w/evidence, I'm game to hear their facts, always. I want THE answer. Not just my answer. I have another factual, medical reason for the suspicion, but I'm not going to explain it here cuz I don't want that connection to be lost for others to later make it. If you read about how these pesticides work on plants, it sounds a lot like what happens to us.
I'm wondering if landscapers could have an immunity build up or if those kind of tough guy occupations are less likely to admit when they have something wrong w/them. (?) Like, they would never go self-diagnose or go to the derm w/lesions in the first place, maybe...
Sure be helpful if we didn't have to keep our own stats...but we citizens and a few mainstream medics and NDS are doing a bang-up job so far, anyway! Kudos, folks, let's keep up the GREAT work! |