Barrett, Hazel R.; Browne, Angela W. - In: Social Science & Medicine 34 (1992) 11, pp. 1295-1297
This paper investigates a suspected outbreak of beri-beri which occured in The Gambia in 1988. The outbreak was spatially specific and had a distinct age and gender bias, with young men aged 15-49 being the group mainly affected. The age and gender bias of the outbreak is particularly...
