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Assessing diet in populations at risk for konzo and neurolathyrism
Food and Chemical Toxicology, 2011Although both konzo and neurolathyrism are diseases associated with diet, we know surprising little about the diets of the groups at risk. The objective of this paper is to discuss methods for assessing dietary intake in populations at risk for konzo and lathyrism.
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Climate regimes, El Niño-Southern oscillation and konzo epidemics
2015Epidemics of konzo have occurred during severe droughts in parts of east, central, and southern Africa since the 1920s. Occurrence is attributed to exposure to cyanide from poorly processed cassava foods, the sole source of calories when other food crops fail.
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Nyamayingi's Song: An Analysis of a Konzo Circumcision Song
Africa, 1967Opening ParagraphTo an outsider the most striking feature of the Konzo circumcision ritual is the songs which can be heard almost constantly from the circumcision lodges. The teaching of songs is an important part of the instruction which takes place during the ritual and in many of them a special language is used which is, to a large extent ...
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2009
I Banande e i Bakonzo si considerano come appartenenti a uno stesso passato e condividono tratti essenziali della lingua e della cultura.La storia coloniale e post-coloniale li ha divisi. Attualmente risiedono gli uni nella Repubblica democratica del Congo e gli altri in Uganda. La ricerca effettuata a venti anni di distanza tra i Banande e i Bakonzo a
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I Banande e i Bakonzo si considerano come appartenenti a uno stesso passato e condividono tratti essenziali della lingua e della cultura.La storia coloniale e post-coloniale li ha divisi. Attualmente risiedono gli uni nella Repubblica democratica del Congo e gli altri in Uganda. La ricerca effettuata a venti anni di distanza tra i Banande e i Bakonzo a
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Gut microbiome composition linked to konzo risk
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