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AFP: Pesticide blamed for 'health disaster' in French Caribbean

AFP: : "The French Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique face a 'health disaster' with soaring cancer and infertility rates because of the massive use of banned pesticides on banana plantations, a top cancer specialist warned Monday. Martinique and Guadeloupe are currently facing 'an extremely serious crisis linked to the massive use of pesticides for a great many years,' Professor Dominique Belpomme said in a report obtained by AFP Monday."

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