Permethrin, a pesticide used across Miami-Dade County to kill black salt marsh mosquitoes, has been linked to childhood autism in a new peer-reviewed study.

The disease causes serious illnesses in about 1 in 150 infected people, and can prove fatal. No human cases have been ...

You may be tempted to purchase permethrin pesticide (or related chemicals) meant for agricultural uses and dilute it down to a concentration of 0.52 percent, the industry standard for clothing.

When the Zika virus struck last year, Miami-Dade County Mosquito Control immediately began fogging with three pesticides: BTI, a group of bacteria that kills mosquito larvae; naled, a ...

Just in time for summer hikes and outdoor play, a study finds that the ticks that often convey Lyme disease become unable to bite, and soon die, after exposure to clothing treated with permethrin.

Mosquitoes are becoming an increasingly persistent problem across Southern Nevada, with rising populations and growing ...

Permethrin is a synthetic pesticide that's similar to natural compounds found in chrysanthemums. When you spray permethrin on your clothes, a study published in May found , it incapacitates ticks ...

The US military was apparently on to something when it began treating soldiers' uniforms with permethrin in the 1980s. The move was based on tests showing the EPA-registered pesticide, which ...

(Beyond Pesticides, July 11, 2011) The findings of a research team suggest that the concentrations of the banned but still persistent insecticide chlordane and the widely used insecticide permethrin ...