Epidemic of neurolathyrism in Ethiopia.

Getahun, H; Mekonnen, A; TekleHaimanot, R; Lambein, F · Lancet · 1999

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Abstract

After a drought and famine, overconsumption of the drought-tolerant grasspea triggered an epidemic of neurodegenerative neurolathyrism in Northeast Ethiopia. Environmental, nutritional, and medical factors seem to affect the susceptibility.

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