If your talking about the skin disease from the lack of vitamin c this is not contagious. People would get it because the didn't eat a good diet. Now not that many people get pellagra because people eat better even though its hard to believe with all those fast food restaurants
That Pellagra isn't contagious because staff , and teachers all the only ones who aren't getting it. Btw , were doing the same thing :D
people of the south thought pellagra was caused by eating corn, or that it was a contagious disease carried by insects or bacteria. Pellagra is caused by lack of certain diets, but people in america don't have to worry about it today, because all the vitamins used to prevent pellagra are in flour.
Pellagra can be cured by taking nicotinamide. The nicotinamide can be found in pill form and will reverse the condition of pellagra.
he knew in the south every had pellagra
Pellagra is not an infectious disease. Pellagra is a nutritional deficiency disease.
Untreated pellagra will continue progressing over the course of several years, and is ultimately fatal.
Primary pellagra results when the diet is extremely deficient in niacin-rich foods.
Dr.Goldberger did an experiment to see what caused pellagra
Dr.Goldberger did an experiment to see what caused pellagra
The 4 D's of pellagra are dermatitis (skin rash), diarrhea, dementia (mental confusion), and ultimately death if left untreated. Pellagra is caused by a deficiency of niacin (vitamin B3) in the diet.
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