Pesticides and Suicides

It’s long been known, although not much discussed by entomologists, that pesticides are used as a means for suicide. Pesticide self-poisoning accounts for an estimated 300,000 deaths yearly in Asia – over a third of the world’s total suicides. In 2003, pesticides accounted for over 60% of suicides in China, in rural areas [...]

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