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The health economics of Aflatoxin: Global burden of disease

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http://programs.ifpri.org/afla/pdf/aflacontrol_wp04.pdf
Publication date
28/02/2011
Language:
English
Type of Publication:
Studies
Focus Region:
Global
Focus Topic:
Health & Diseases
Type of Risk:
Biological & environmental
Type of Risk Managment Option:
Risk reduction/mitigation
Commodity:
Other
Author
Felicia Wu, Clare Narrod, Marites Tiongco, Yan Liu
Organization
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

In 2004, several hundred Kenyans became severely ill, and 125 died, of acute aflatoxicosis: a disease of liver failure associated with consuming extremely high levels of aflatoxin in food (Lewis et al. 2005; Strosnider et al. 2006). Since then, over the last six years, greater global public attention has been drawn to aflatoxin and its associated health risk.

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