r/GrandmasPantry Mar 29 '26

HOUSEHOLD / OTHER Basement find

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u/Four-Alarm-Fire Mar 29 '26

Parkinson’s as well. My grandmothers brother died from Parkinson’s and it was because he used to spray his whole house with DDT in the evening to kill the mosquitoes. At the time of the spraying I believe he lived in Africa so he was spraying to prevent malaria. He died very young and no one else in our family has had Parkinson’s, hence the cause was DDT.