{"id":3144,"date":"2021-02-09T11:13:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T16:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/?p=3144"},"modified":"2021-02-15T11:23:48","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T16:23:48","slug":"this-widely-used-pesticide-may-increase-your-risk-of-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/this-widely-used-pesticide-may-increase-your-risk-of-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"This Widely Used Pesticide May Increase Your Risk of COVID"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Malathion is recommended by CDC for people with head lice.\u00a0 It is an organophosphate insecticide.\u00a0<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>A review in Food and Chemical Toxicology suggests organophosphorus pesticides may increase the ability of SARS-CoV-2 to cause COVID, especially among vulnerable people with underlying medical conditions.<\/em><\/p><p>A review published in\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC7825955\/\" target=\"_blank\">Food and Chemical Toxicology<\/a>\u00a0suggests organophosphorus pesticides (OPs) may increase the ability of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/news\/republish\/chds-letter-to-congress-urging-covid-19-origins-investigation\/\">SARS-CoV-2<\/a>\u00a0to cause\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender_category\/covid\/\">COVID-19<\/a>, especially among vulnerable individuals with underlying medical conditions. Organophosphorus pesticides (OP) have a wide range of biological uses that makes these chemicals ubiquitous, significantly contaminating both terrestrial (land) and aquatic (water) environments.<\/p><p>However, OPs are highly toxic, originating from the same compounds as World War II\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-1-4471-5625-3_2\" target=\"_blank\">nerve agents<\/a>. Moreover, OPs are one of the leading causes of poisoning globally. Therefore, it is vital to understand how OPs exposure will impact human health in conjunction with other immunologically compromising diseases like COVID-19.<\/p><cite><em>Originally published by\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2021\/02\/vulnerability-to-covid-19-may-increase-with-exposure-to-organophosphorus-pesticides\/\" target=\"_blank\">Beyond Pesticides<\/a><\/em>.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malathion is recommended by CDC for people with head lice.\u00a0 It is an organophosphate insecticide.\u00a0 A review in Food and Chemical Toxicology suggests organophosphorus pesticides may increase the ability of SARS-CoV-2 to cause COVID, especially among vulnerable people with underlying medical conditions. A review published in\u00a0Food and Chemical Toxicology\u00a0suggests organophosphorus pesticides (OPs) may increase the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,33],"tags":[163],"class_list":{"0":"post-3144","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-alerts","7":"category-news","8":"tag-covid","9":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"NPA","author_link":"https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/author\/moore\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3145,"href":"https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3144\/revisions\/3145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}