| The troops suffered from malaria, dengue fever, beriberi, hookworm and pellagra. |
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| The leaves are bitter and are used as a remedy for ophthalmia, ulcers, dropsy, cholera and beriberi associated with a weakness of the heart. |
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| Diseases such as beriberi and malaria have become more common as problems with sanitation have increased. |
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| When was the last time that you met an American-born person suffering from rickets, scurvy, beriberi, pellagra, or any other disease caused entirely by malnutrition. |
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| He then worked with Robert Koch in Berlin on bacteriological research and in 1886 returned to Java to investigate the cause of beriberi. |
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| When they examined the explorers' journals, they found recorded a classic progression of the symptoms of thiamine deficiency, or the disease known as beriberi. |
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| He noticed that the disease was similar to the polyneuritis associated with the nutritional disorder beriberi. |
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| A dietary deficiency was first suggested as the cause of beriberi in 1880 when a new diet was instituted for the Japanese navy. |
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| However, many children die of malnutrition, scurvy or beriberi, as result of poor eating habits. |
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| Thiamine is an amine, which has a vital role for the body in the fight against beriberi. |
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| The next campaign sees the decimation of forty-four Madagascans as a result of beriberi! |
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| Examples of such deficiency diseases are scurvy due to a lack of vitamin C and beriberi as a consequence of a vitamin B1 shortage. |
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| It is well known today that a lack of vitamin B1 is the cause of beriberi, and it is now very rare due to improved diets. |
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| Cholera, malaria, dysentery, beriberi and jungle sores began to take their toll. |
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| Researchers accidentally discovered that chicken recovered from beriberi by eating brown rice. |
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| By VJ Day, when the men were liberated, Jack was suffering from recurring malaria, beriberi and Blackwater fever. |
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| The situation for those incarcerated has become inhumane, exposing them to sicknesses tied to malnourishment, such as beriberi, or those tied to a lack of hygiene, like itchy rashes and scabies. |
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| Although beriberi has been known in rice eaters in China since 2600 BC, it was only in 1885 that its nutritional origin was proven and not until 1910 was thiamine identified. |
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| This in turn causes beriberi, a disease normally linked to nutritional deficiency. |
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| In developing countries, vitamin deficiencies cause an appalling array of diseases, such as beriberi or blindness, from vitamin A deficiency. |
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| Vitamin deficiency is also a common result of starvation, often leading to anemia, beriberi, pellagra, and scurvy. |
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| Her legs and arms puffed with fluid, symptoms of beriberi, she was weak, short of breath and with a fever of 106, Tyson said. |
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| Eating excessive quantities of bracken can cause beriberi, especially in creatures with simple stomachs. |
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| Many chicken had polyneuritis, a condition similar to that of beriberi. |
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| Eijkman sought a bacterial cause for beriberi. |
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| British researchers William Fletcher, Henry Fraser, and A. T. Stanton later confirmed that beriberi in humans was also related to the consumption of polished white rice. |
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| Funk believed that some human diseases, particularly beriberi, scurvy, and pellagra, also were caused by deficiencies of factors of the same chemical type. |
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| They fed guinea pigs their test diet of grains and flour, which had earlier produced beriberi in their pigeons, and were surprised when classic scurvy resulted instead. |
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| In Haitian prisons, deportees have suffered from a lack of basic hygiene, nutrition and health care, and from outbreaks of diseases like beriberi and cholera. |
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