Epidemiology of acute pesticide poisoning in Morocco: A 7-year retrospective study (2008-2014)

The aim of this study was to determine the epidemiological profile of acute pesticide poisoning. a retrospective study of poisoning cases,declared between january 2008 to december 2014 at the moroccan anti-poisoning and pharmaco-vigilance center (mappc),was conducted. during the study period,6 800 acute pesticides poisoning cases were collected. most cases resulted from the province of rabat-salé zemmour-zaer (17%). the average age of patients was 21 ± 14 years. the sex-ratio (female/male) was 1.4. the adults and the teenagers were the most concerned by this type of poisonings,with respectively,3 436 cases (50.52%) and 1 372 cases (20.17%). in 60.44% of the cases,the poisonings were accidental,with a lethality of 1.14%. the pesticide poisoning occurs more often in urban zones with 90.1%. the insecticides have registered the highest number representing 48.8% of the cases. 201 deaths were declared of the 4 761 patients for whom the outcome was known,with a lethality of 4.2%. copyright © 2017.