Health Hazards of Pesticides

Vermin feeding off food. Rodent looking up. Insects going down wood. “The U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Public Health Service. Bureau of State Services presents” “A Communicable Disease Center Production” “Health Hazards of Pesticides” Helicopter flies and drops pesticide over farmland. Tractor sprays pesticide over crops. Car guzzles pesticide from the back. People spraying pesticides throughout their house. Dead cockroaches laying on the ground. Rodent curled up and dead. Crop duster sprays fertilizer throughout land. Pilot stares down as man holds flag. Helicopter lands in front of man. Pilot parks helicopter as man drops sacks of fertilizer. Man in tractor fertilizing a field. Man looks down intently. Picking fruits out of a tree. Spraying trees with fertilizer. Leaves waving in the wind. Green apple hanging from a branch. Man walks below a tall tree. Quiet streets. Men and women prepare concoctions in a lab. Pipetting solutions into a test tube as test tube turns dark. Man transferring liquids and testing on spectrometer. Adjustment and calibration of equipment. Scientist feeds test monkeys. Sleeping monkey on bench. Surgeon performing surgery. Preparation of a pasty ingredient with the aid of a blender. Weighing ingredients on a balance. Mouse smelling powder placed in its cage. Pipetting TEPP. Test mouse injected with TEPP and goes wild on table. Test results being printed out. Men standing in line to wait for medication being given by scientist and devouring it. Doctor performing physical examination on man Man attaching tape on jacket of another man as he prepares him for this activities. Man places mask. Smoke steaming out of engine as motor goes through fields. Man gets off vehicle and tape is removed from his body. Scientist evaluates material performing several tests. Fertilizer being sprayed. Apple and produce are picked up from baskets. Scientist pouring concoction. Doctor examines bedridden man as he undergoes convulsions. Newspapers piling on top of one another about toxicity of insecticide. Man enters tall building. Doctor discusses results. Two men standing next to a grazing cow. Young man walks through farmland to mailbox to take out mail. Holding jars of solutions next to one another. Warning instructions on jars. Man mixing liquids to be poured into tank. Man washes body with water and stores equipment. Burning materials. Fertilizers being spread by tractor. Picking off cherries from trees. Cherries piling on top of each other. Smoke engulfing farmland. Men and women perform experiments. Doctor performs surgery. Distribution of medication. Man places tape on another man. Car spraying pesticide. Helicopter rising and spraying pesticide. “The End” “Project Supervisor: Jack C. Kirkland. Technical Advisor: Wayland J. Hayes.”