HRPR 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Genetic Code, Google Scholar, Swaminathan
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Hrpr 1001 - 008: the way we live, work and play. In your own words, write a 3 or 4 sentence summary of this story that we read in class. Include an in text citation and a full reference that you would place at the end your paper. According to an article in the new york times (barry, 2017), Epidemiologists studied a mysterious case of children getting sick during the summer months in a small town in india. They traced the sickness to the lychee fruit which contains a toxin that is especially harmful to children who eat it on an empty stomach. Once the epidemiologists determined the source and the condition, they advised parents not to let children eat the fruit on an empty stomach. An evaluation has not been completed, but the recommendation appears to have worked. Dangerous fruit: mystery of deadly outbreaks in india is solved.