My only comment on the Great Corn Slurry debacle is that enriched and nixtamalized corn is the reason pellagra rates fell from more than 3 million and more than 100,000 deaths between 1906 and 1940, t
Machine-generated label — not the source headline.
- When
- Where
- Location unknown
- Category
- outbreak · epidemic
My only comment on the Great Corn Slurry debacle is that enriched and nixtamalized corn is the reason pellagra rates fell from more than 3 million and more than 100,000 deaths between 1906 and 1940, to nearly eliminated by the 50s. Pellagra was epidemic. We ended it by adding niacin.
Involved actors & entities
People, organizations and places machine-extracted from the source reporting — they power search and the correlation graph. Extracted automatically, so they can include noise, especially on events still marked unverified.
Sources
- Bluesky ↗ · first seen 2026-06-17 08:22 UTC
Defaxon links out to the original reporting and never republishes article text.
Correlated events
Computed by the Defaxon correlation engine — linked by shared actors, co-location, and temporal proximity. Scored hypotheses, never causal claims.