AGNR 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 36: Pit Latrine, Hookworm Infection, Hydrogen Sulfide
4 Dec 2017
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Why the simplest interventions may yield the greatest sustained benefits. A pit preferably covered with logs that has a bottom well above the water table. Hydrogen sulfide h2s caused death of 3 men on farm in manure pit. Within a couple of inhalations, it anaesthetizes the first cranial nerves and then anaesthetizes everything else and you stop breathing. Trachoma- every time you blink you are scarring your cornea with eyelashes hurting the eye. It is awful and leads to corneal opacity (can"t see through cornea) Vitamin a - plasma retinol was 1/6 higher among the people who took retinol supplements over 6 months. But not a big effect on child mortality. Input subsidies to improve smallholder maize productivity in malawi: toward an african. By adding some fertilizer to the soil, maize production increased a lot from deficit to surplus and allowed the country to become an exporter of grain instead of an importer.
