194 Students Collapse from Malnutrition
Some 194 students in a remote town in China are suffering from malnutrition.
At first, locals thought they had another SARS-like epidemic.
It wasn't food poisoning or any other disease that caused pain in the students' feet and hands.
It was peripheral nerve inflammation due to malnutrition. The kids weren't getting the basics in food that they needed.
Investigators headed for the dining hall where the affected teenagers ate, or in
this case didn't eat, suspecting that the source of the problem was there.
The source of the problem was that there wasn't enough food for them there.
The kids non-fresh rice was over-washed and the water was removed when the
rice was half-cooked and given to pigs.
What they ate was potatoes and Chinese cabbage. That's it.
When the students were administered B1 vitamins, they recovered after 3-5 days.
With all the money that China has these days, why do kids have to make do without enough food?
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Students Collapse from Malnutrition
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