title: Pediatric health aspects of PBBs.
abstract: Many Michigan farm children are viewed as having suffered a deterioration in health coincident with contamination of dairy cattle by PBBs. Among Wisconsin dairy farm children such a deterioration was a rare event. There is a suggestion that Michigan farm children who had multiple symptoms during the 1973-76 period are getting better. A discrete syndrome of ill health has not been identified among Michigan farm children. The symptoms complained of indicate a disruption of various physiological functions, including neurobehavioral, gastrointestinal and immunological. Children from quarantined farms do not have a higher prevalence of multiple symptoms than those from nonquarantined farms.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000818:Animals; D001713:Biphenyl Compounds / Q000506:poisoning*; D001822:Body Burden; D002417:Cattle; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003612:Dairying; D004781:Environmental Exposure; D005260:Female; D005506:Food Contamination; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008460:Meat / Q000506:poisoning*; D008824:Michigan; D008892:Milk / Q000506:poisoning*; D011075:Polybrominated Biphenyls / Q000506:poisoning*; D011790:Quarantine; D012424:Rural Population; D014922:Wisconsin
chemical_list: D001713:Biphenyl Compounds; D011075:Polybrominated Biphenyls