Journal of Ecosystem & Ecography
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Research Article

Pesticide Exposure and Human Health: A Review

Department of Zoology, University of Gujrat, Hafiz Hayat Campus, Gujrat, Pakistan

*Corresponding Author:

Asghar U
Department of Zoology, University of Gujrat
Hafiz Hayat Campus, Gujrat, Pakistan
Tel: +92 53 3643112
E-mail: usmanasghar228@gmail.com

Received date: December 09, 2015; Accepted date: February 23, 2016; Published date: February 29, 2016

Citation: Asghar U, Malik MF, Javed A (2016) Pesticide Exposure and HumanHealth: A Review. J Ecosys Ecograph S5:005. doi: 10.4172/2157-7625.S5-005

Copyright: © 2016 Asghar U, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

This study was conducted at Department of Zoology, University of Gujrat, Pakistan during 2014-2015. The data for the last two decades regarding pesticide exposure and human health was compiled through a thorough review of thirty three research articles published in various journals of international repute. The way of pesticide exposure and their health outcomes, including the neurological, fetal growth, birth and cancerous outcome. Several pesticides are effect as neurotoxins and cause neuronal disorder and degenerative diseases, some effect fetal growth and cause congenital anomalies and other are carcinogenic for human. The data analysis of international researcher revealed that due to extensive use of pesticide increase their exposure to human which result greatly increase the risk of cancer, neural and birth defects.

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