• ‘My right side was paralysed, I was so sick’: the pesticide poisonings in Brazil that lead back to the UK

    ‘My right side was paralysed, I was so sick’: the pesticide poisonings in Brazil that lead back to the UK
    Investigation uncovers how chemicals like diquat, banned in the UK but legal to export, are causing health problems in the global southValdemar Postanovicz was at home after a day tending to his tobacco crop when his limbs seized up. “All of the right side of my body was paralysed. I couldn’t feel my foot and my hand. My mouth twisted to the right,” he says.He feared it was a stroke. In fact, he was suffering ­symptoms of acute ­pesticide poisoning. Postanovicz, 45, had

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