Good links, Opie.

No Pest strips are meant to disperse dichlorvos into the air. Here is a study on the effects of dichlorvos respiration: /SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS/ After inhalation of dichlorvos, breathing and eye effects are the first to appear. These include tightness of the chest, wheezing, a bluish discoloration of the skin, small pupils, aching in and behind the eyes, blurring of vision, tearing, runny nose, headache, and watering of the mouth. After /ingestion/ of dichlorvos, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps, and diarrhea may appear within two hours. After skin absorption, sweating and twitching in the area of absorption may occur ... within 15 minutes to four hours. With severe intoxication by all routes, in addition to all the symptoms /previously mentioned/, weakness, generalized twitching, and paralysis may /result/ and breathing may stop. In addition, dizziness, confusion, staggering, slurred speech, generalized sweating, irregular or slow heart beat, convulsions, and coma /may result/.
[Mackison, F. W., R. S. Stricoff, and L. J. Partridge, Jr. (eds.). NIOSH/OSHA - Occupational Health Guidelines for Chemical Hazards. DHHS(NIOSH) Publication No. 81-123 (3 VOLS). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, Jan. 1981., p. 1]**PEER REVIEWED**



Basically you don't want to be around anything that inhibits your cholinesterase levels, which Dichlorvos doe. In addition to seriously weakening your immune system, it is a verified carcinogen in animal experiments.

Check out this study: Not pretty

/HUMAN EXPOSURE STUDIES/ Humans exposed at concentrations ... varying from 0.14 to 0.33 mg/cu m for 30 minutes each hour, 10 hours a day for 14 days, showed no changes in cholinesterase or in number of physiological functions. ...On the other hand, when 28 human volunteers were exposed to dichlorvos by inhalation at a concentration of 1 mg/cu m, single exposures of 7.5-8.5 hours resulted in plasma cholinesterase depression of 20-25%.
[American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists, Inc. Documentation of the Threshold Limit Values and Biological Exposure Indices. 6th ed. Volumes I, II, III. Cincinnati, OH: ACGIH, 1991., p. 446]**PEER REVIEWED**

And finally, here's a little something to make you sleep better at night:
CASE REPORTS/ Two workers in Costa Rica died after splashing a concentrated formulation of dichlorvos on their bare arms and failing to wash it off promptly.
[DHHS/ATSDR; Toxicological Profile for Dichlorvos p.57(PB/98/101124/AS) (September 1997) ]**PEER REVIEWED**