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Rosling began his wide-ranging career as a physician, spending many years in rural Africa tracking a rare paralytic disease (which he named konzo) and discovering its cause: hunger and badly processed cassava.

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Rosling began his wide-ranging career as a physician, spending many years in rural Africa tracking a rare paralytic disease (which he named konzo) and discovering its cause: hunger and badly processed cassava.

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The changes we've made with the community is reducing the rates of konzo -- from the hundreds per month to dozens.

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Nan Dale 2011

In November 2009, Action Against Hunger launched a 22-month intervention in a region of the Democratic Republic of Congo to address the factors underlying a konzo epidemic.

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Nan Dale 2011

There is no better way to illustrate the importance of the life- and livelihood-saving work our organization carries out than to tell the story of konzo, a debilitating condition found in the developing world that can arise during food crises.

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Nan Dale 2011

More than one quarter of the konzo cases we diagnosed in children under 18 years of age were also suffering from acute malnutrition.

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Nan Dale 2011

We worked with community groups and leaders to raise awareness on the causes of konzo and conducted nutritional trainings on the proper retting methods i.e., soaking for preparing konzo-causing varieties of cassava.

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Nan Dale 2011

He named the disease "konzo" and for the last 20 years Rosling, now an acclaimed professor of International Health at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, a global health advocate and a TED Talk luminary, has researched it across remote rural areas in five African countries, while advocating its eradication.

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Nan Dale 2011

Our teams discovered that 56 percent of adults diagnosed with konzo were also severely malnourished.

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Nan Dale 2011

Those who suffer from konzo are often subsisting on little other than cassava and may also not be processing the root properly, since detoxification requires an abundant water supply.

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