About
250,000 hepatocellular carcinoma-related deaths occur annually
in parts of ... sub-Saharan Africa due to aflatoxin ingestion...
About half of all cancer deaths in Guangxi, China were due to primary
hepatocellular carcinoma from aflatoxin...more
Liver
cancer is the fifth most frequent cancer but ranks fourth in mortality...Major
risk factors are hepatitis B and
C infection and eating foods contaminated with aflatoxin...more
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Benin
September
20, 2005 - Aflatoxin
Exposure after Weaning - Solid Food Contaminant Impairs Growth...more
September
13, 2004 - Postweaning Exposure to Aflatoxin Results in
Impaired Child Growth: A Longitudinal Study in Benin, West Africa...more
September 1, 2004 - Exposure to Common Mold
Toxin In Food Impairs Growth in West African Children...more
Benin,
Ghana, and Togo: Infant
Mortality: ...97 out of every 1,000 children in Benin, 76 of
every 1,000 in Ghana, and
77 of every 1,000 in Togo die before age one. Aflatoxin is
indirectly absorbed by infants through maternal milk. As a
result, their
immune system is affected. "This contributes to high infant
mortality rates and to impaired health throughout the child's
life," said Kitty Cardwell, a member of Rotary and an
expert on aflatoxin...more
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Egypt
Studies on Mycoflora and Aflatoxin in Regular and Decaffeinated
Black Tea...more
May 28, 1999 - EU BAN ON EYGPTIAN PEANUTS
IMPORTS...more
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Ghana
June 5, 2005 - Control Aflatoxin, WHO Urges...more
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Gambia
February
2, 2003 - Modification
of Immune Function through Exposure to Dietary Aflatoxin in Gambian
Children...more
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Kenya
June 9, 2006 - Kitui afflatoxin death toll rises - more
May 13, 2005 - 54 treated for food poisoning in Kitui ...more
May 11, 2005 - Toxic grain kills at least 11 in Kenya...more
December
1, 2004 -
Study Blames Weak Laws for Food Poisons...more
September
25, 2004 -
Kenya is dealing with severe drought and crop failure and one
of the worst aflatoxin outbreaks in the world...more
September
16, 2004 - Poison Scare As
Maize Sent to Schools in Famine Area ...more
August
19, 2004 -
Kenyan farmers needs $3.6 M in aid...$750,000 will be used to
keep out aflatoxin...more
August 11, 2004 - ...aflatoxin, has contaminated
some of the grain that was harvested, forcing the government to destroy
some of its own grain reserves...more
27
July 2004 - The United Nations will soon appeal
for international aid to assist Kenyans hit by hunger...more
July 26, 2004 - ...there have been cases
of poisoning in three districts of Eastern Province by aflatoxin...more
July25, 2004 - Meanwhile, the death toll
from food poisoning in Kitui District has risen to 25 after a 35-year-old
man died at the Mutomo Mission Hospital on Monday...more
June
7, 2004 - The
patients have symptoms of liver failure, they are coming in with
yellow eyes, swollen legs, vomiting and bleeding
from nose...more
October 3, 2001 - At least 12 people have
died in Meru North district in the past 2 months after eating contaminated
maize...more
1981
- In
Kenya and Mozambique there wer 20 hospital admission and 60%
mortality...more
