A Study of Psychiatric Morbidity Among Patients Suffering from Pulmonary Tuberculosis

Pesticides are reckoned to be the most important source of poisoning worldwide, with a high incidence and fatality rate. Agrochemical pesticides are a major public health problem throughout the developing world. Organophosphate pesticides were responsible for the majority of deaths in most series of poisoning cases, particularly those in rural areas. The reported fatality in hospital-based surveys was as high as 46%.