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Konzo is an
epidemic paralytic disease occurring among hunger-stricken
rural po****tions in
Africa where a diet
dominated by
insufficiently processed...
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Konzo people may
refer to:
Konso people, an
ethnic group in south-central
Ethiopia Konjo people, a
people found in the
Rwenzori Mountains of
Uganda This...
- The
lhukonzo (
Konzo) language,
variously rendered Lukonzo, Olukonzo, and
konzo, is a
Bantu language spoken by the
Konzo people of
Uganda and the Democratic...
- with
Sumbwa added per
Nurse (2003):
Gungu (E10)
Bwari (Kabwari) (D50)
Konzo (D40): Konjo, Nande, ? Kobo Shi–Havu (D50): Hunde, Havu, Shi, Tembo, Nyindu...
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Seichi "Bud"
Konzo (1905 – 1992) was a
professor of
engineering at the
University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1929–1971 and a
pioneer in the...
- lathyrism.
Disorders that are
clinically similar are
konzo and Lytico-bodig disease.[citation needed]
Konzo means "tied legs" in the Yaka language, and is common...
- in
northern Mozambique. In 1981, he
began investigating an
outbreak of
konzo, a
paralytic disease first described in the
Democratic Republic of the Congo...
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investigations revealed that the re-emergence of the
paralytic disease konzo in poor
rural communities was
caused by high
levels of
cyanide in insufficiently...
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ataxia (a
neurological disorder affecting the
ability to walk, also
known as
konzo). It has also been
linked to
tropical fibrocalcific pancreatitis in humans...
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dietary toxicity,
particularly with the
upper motor neuron disease known as
konzo to the
African po****tions in
which it was
first described by
Trolli and...
