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Emerging evidence regarding COVID 19 highlights the role of individual resistance and immune function in both susceptibility to infection as well as severity of disease. Multiple factors influence the response of the human host when exposed to viral pathogens. Influencing an individual's
For many decades there has been adequate information for the elimination of acute dietary deficiency diseases. Scurvy, beri-beri, and pellagra, once serious scourges, are now seen only rarely. The severe forms of protein-energy malnutrition, kwashiorkor and marasmus, have also decreased greatly.
BACKGROUND
The link between nutritional status and either optic or peripheral neuropathies is well established with tobacco, ethanol, deficiencies in thiamine, vitamin A, B12, B3 and B6 and protein-energy malnutrition all being causative.
METHODS
We describe the case of a 32-year-old Afro-Caribbean