Fortified rice raises risk of hookworm infections

3 February 2016
SciDevNet
Public health
fortified rice / Frank Wieringa / French Research Institute for Development (IRD) / Mahidol University / Pattanee Winichagoon / United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)

Eating fortified rice increases the risk of hookworm infections, a study in Cambodian schoolchildren shows, suggesting that the rice’s added nutrients inadvertently help parasites grow. …

 Mike Ives
http://www.scidev.net/asia-pacific/health/news/fortified-rice-risk-hookworm-infections-1.html

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