Pellegra thought to be infectious turns out to bevitamin deficiency & others

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Pellegrahttp://www.whale.to/a/scobey2.htmlexcerptMISTAKES THAT HAVE BEEN MADE IN THE PASTSeveral commissions, appointed during the first quarter of this century to investigate the cause of pellagra, concluded from their studies that pellegra was an infectious, contagious ddisease. Harris85 (1913) was able to inject Berkefeld filtered tissue material from pellagra victims into monkeys to cause a corresponding disease in these animals. He concluded from these experiments that a virus was present in the injected material and that it was the cause of pellagra. If the work of Harris had been followed exclusively, various strains of this "virus" might have been discovered and a vaccine, effective in experimental animals, might have been developed, as in the case of poliomyelitis. Today, as a result of unlimited research, however, we know conclusively that pellagra is not caused by a virus but rather that it is a vitamin deficiency disease. It is obvious that if the investigations of pellagra had been restricted to the virus theory, it would still be a mystery.[...]The symptoms of milk sickness in man resemble those of influenza or grippe, gastritis, and so-called ptomaine poisoning. As a matter of fact, so-called summer grippe or flu often occurs during epidemics of poliomyelitis. There were 10,000 cases in Cincinnati in 194789-90, which were thought to be related to poliomyelitis and were considered, therefore, virus infections. However, Matson91 (1950), writing about poisonous plants, says that some physicians have expressed the opinion that mysterious outbreaks of so-called summer flu in the late summer are often due to milk contaminated with tremetol [a poison occurring in white snakeroot and rayless goldenrod].The observation that human and bovine outbreaks of tremetol poisoning occur simultaneously corresponds with similar observations made during epidemics of poliomyelitis. Medical reports have shown repeatedly that paralytic diseases in horses, pigs, dogs, cats, ducks, chickens, etc. occur simultaneously in districts where epidemics of poliomyelitis are prevalent,... [even though "polio" affects only humans (except in laboratories), pesticide causality resolves these conflicts of data.] <SNIP>The vitamin deficiency diseases, beriberi and pellagra, are outstanding examples of epidemic diseases that were formerly considered to be infectious and communicable according to the logic employed by Sachs. In fact, we find pellagra incorporated into the Public Health Law as a communicable disease in the State of Pennsylvania in the following rule and regulation adopted January 5, 1910: "That all physicians practicing within the limits of the state shall make immediate report of each and every case of uncinariasis duodenalis (hookworm disease) and pellagra and anterior poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis) occurring in their practice in the same manner that other communicable diseases are now by law and by rule and regulation of the State Department of Health reported to the health authorities." A State Health Officer95 recently wrote to me as follows: "I think all of us will agree with you that in the past, as is still probably true, public health rules and regulations and sometimes even public health laws, were influenced too much by what we did not know rather than by what we did know. This was probably an acceptable line of reasoning in the past, but with increasing public health education and greater understanding and cooperation from citizens, this justification becomes less acceptable."

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