HLTB21H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Joseph Goldberger, World War I, Cellular Respiration
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Chapter 16 plagues w/o germs (diet- deficiency diseases) deficirncy diseases called plagues w/o germs. *clinical symptoms often refered to as 4d"s: dermatitis, diarrhea, dementia, and death. Often afflicted the poor, disease was not only in italy. often indv who consumed mainly corn, salas: concluded that it was die tp a parasite verdet in the corn no microbe of vector could be found. 1900 struck the american south (spring, worse in may-june, then declined). first found in the insane jospitals of alabama and then in farmers and mill workers. 1909- declared disease of 26 states but low levels in america fatality rate at 40% 1916, second leading cause of death in. America. no cause, no treatment, no development in injected animals. 1930s mil deaths worldwide due to pallagra. by 1950 pellagra had been eradicated from the united states. pallagra was tied to economics despite indirect evidence of pellagra as a dietary-deficiency disease a hidden hunger few accepted this notion.
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