Environment?

[Ellen Mizzell <emzell@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> In reply to Alvin's posting on possible environmental causes---my mom who
> has Parkinson's spent all of her summers on her grandmother's farm, where
> there were no indoor toilets, and probably lived in homes for much of her
> childhood that were equipped with outhouses.  The possibility of a rural
> connection will be interesting, but her sister who grew up in exactly the same
> environment and is slightly older has no signs of PD.  Mary Vass

And my mother also grew up in a rural area and lived in homes with outhouses
for probably the first 25 years of her life.  But again, she has 6 siblings,
none of whom had PD -- though her brother died of Alzheimers, which I think
also is suspected of environmental causes.
-- Ellen Mizzell