Clusters of anophthalmia. No link with benomyl in Italy... [28]

Since the Observer reported a possible link between apparent clusters of anophthalmia and microphthalmia in England and Wales and the pesticide benomyl,1 several articles have commented on possible strategies to manage public and media concern, the methodology to identify clusters, the difficulty in assessing disease clusters with unreliable data, and the weakness of retrospective studies.*RF 2-5* Analysis of cases routinely reported to the national congenital malformation ...