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Re:Around one-in-three children globally suffer from lead po... by selimthegrim on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @12:20PM (#30074614)
Also changes in the way corn was processed after the Civil War exacerbated pellagra.
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Re:Around one-in-three children globally suffer from lead po... by carapace on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @03:26PM (#30077566)
Ah... I hadn't heard about that:

> Pellagra was first reported in 1902 in the United States, and has "caused more deaths than any other nutrition-related disease in American history", reaching epidemic proportions in the American South during the early 1900s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pellagra#United_States

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