Solving The mystery of PELLEGRA

                        Solving the Mystery of Pellagra

 In the first few years of the 20th century, Dr Joseph  Goldberg er successfully controlled outbreaks of several fatal  diseases, from yellow fever in Louisiana to typhus in mexico. So it wasn't surprising that, in 1914, the Surgeon General of the United States chose him to tackle another disease thought to be infectious that was raging throughout the South. Called pellegra, At the time, it afflicted more than 50,000 people each every year, and it about 10% of cases it resulted in death.