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  • Title: [Beriberi, recurrent nutritional disease in a detention house in Côte-d'Ivoire].
    Author: Aké-Tano O, Konan EY, Tetchi EO, Ekou FK, Ekra D, Coulibaly A, Dagnan NS.
    Journal: Bull Soc Pathol Exot; 2011 Dec; 104(5):347-51. PubMed ID: 21336653.
    Abstract:
    As a re-emerging disease, beriberi caused by a lack of thiamine in food threatens more and more prisons in developing countries. Indeed in 2008, a beriberi epidemic occurred in a detention house of Côte-d'Ivoire called Maca. The goal of our retrospective investigation was to describe this epidemic in order to improve prisoners' health. The study related to 131 subjects, 64% of cases affected (N = 205). The total rate of beriberi attack was estimated at 38.6‰. The mean age was 33; all patients were male and they were detained in "Batiment C" (70.2%), synonymous with heavy punishment. They spent about 28.1 month in Maca. The clinical symptoms were neurological signs (swarming: 41%) and cardiovascular signs (dyspnoea: 42%, thoracic pain: 35%). Half of the patients (51%) presented oedemas of the lower limbs. The rate of healing was about 97% when patients followed treatment. Providing good nutrition to the prisoners and the distribution of vitamin complements will avoid other epidemics.
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