A man with Parkinson’s after spending his life working in orchards, exposed to pesticides, obtained recognition of occupational disease, post mortem, reveals The Parisian according to an AFP report.
Marcel Geslin died in June 2018, at the age of 74, from Parkinson’s disease. His brother, Michel Geslin fought to have it admitted that it was an occupational disease. The man with Parkinson’s would have developed the disease following his exposure to pesticides.
For 37 years, he worked as an arborist employee in Loiré, near Angers. His job was to maintain the orchards, previously treated with phytosanitary products.
Parkinson listed on the table of agricultural occupational diseases
He retired, and the troubles began in 2008. The doctors first thought of Alzheimer’s before changing their minds to direct the diagnosis to Parkinson’s. His request for recognition as an occupational disease was refused twice in 2017 and 2018.
However, Parkinson’s is included in the risks of occupational diseases of the agricultural regime, as a disease caused by exposure to pesticides. But on April 15, the Maine-et-Loire social security court recognized the occupational origin of Marcel Geslin’s illness.
The collective support for victims of pesticides in the West welcomed this decision while 14 other recognitions are pending from the courts.
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