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By Juliette Jowit
LONDON, AUG. 15. Numbers of sufferers of brain diseases, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and motor neurone disease, have soared across the West in less than 20 years, scientists have discovered. The alarming rise, which includes figures showing rates of dementia have trebled in men, has been linked to rises in levels of pesticides, industrial effluents, domestic waste, car exhausts and other pollutants, says a report in the journal Public Health. "This has really scared me," said Professor Colin Pritchard of Bournemouth University on the south coast of England, one of the report's authors. "These are nasty diseases: people are getting more of them and they are starting earlier. We have to look at the environment and ask ourselves what we are doing." The report, which Mr. Pritchard wrote with colleagues at Southampton University also on the south coast of England, covered the incidence of brain diseases in the U.K., U.S., Japan, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands and Spain in 1979-1997. — © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2004
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