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Article: The beri-beri scourge.(Opinion)
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- Manila Bulletin
- Article date:
- September 30, 2009
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After a cholera epidemic killed one out of every 10 Filipinos, a typhoon with unprecedented fury devastated Manila with flood waters submerging the low-lying areas for weeks. In the midst of desperation and misery, “...an illness appeared among the natives that was new to them and at the beginning carried off its victims without exception in a few days or weeks...” wrote Dr. M. Koeniger, a German expat, in his journal. Alarmingly, the mortality rate of that yet unidentified disease was higher than any recorded cholera epidemic.The year was 1882. People were convinced that the malignant new scourge was a mutation of the bubonic plague that depopulated Europe; ...
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