Re: Environmental factors

[Cindy Jones <cindyj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

J.R. Bruman wrote:
>The recent exchange of anecdotes etc about various environmental toxins
>brings up something I have mentioned before: a nationwide, or even
>worldwide, registry of PD cases. There are scientists trying right now
>with limited data to correlate environment with incidence. Such a
>registry is not a task for amateurs. It would be a BIG project facing
>lots of difficult problems, such as what questions to ask, how to preserve
>privacy, how to account for incipient or undiagnosed cases, how to exclude
>cases that are not really PD, and so forth. But if environmental causes
>are important, as many people suspect, such a registry might reveal the
>answers we are all looking for. I think if not by some government organiz-
>ation (save us!) perhaps it could be undertaken by one of the civilian
>support institutions, if enough people start asking for it. Comment?
>


I agree.  So, who do we ask?  And, where do we start?


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