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Reddit mentions of Goldberger's War: The Life and Work of a Public Health Crusader
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The "disease" Pellagra is interesting to read about. Essentially, it is actually a vitamin deficiency caused by diet, but in the early 1900's it was thought to be a communicable disease. It especially affected the poor in the southern US and was treated almost like leprosy until a doctor named Joseph Goldberger began to study it.
The Dark Matters tv show on the Science Channel did a segment about it
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