The information published by the International Agency for Research on Cancer confirms the positive relationship between the digestion of aflatoxin and liver cancer in humans. The association has been replicated in many communities. Studies in Thailand, Kenya, Mozambique and Uganda have confirmed the link between food contamination with aflatoxin and Primary liver cancer, and studies have also shown the correlation between the infection of the hepatitis virus and these cases. In addition to its effect on the liver. Several reports published since 1966 have confirmed the link between food contamination with aflatoxin and the appearance of Reye`s syndrome, which is characterized by an intestinal degeneration of the intestine where concentrations of aflatoxin B1 were found in blood samples of the infected.
Aflatoxin has an epidemiological incidence of the human species, the most important of which occurred in India at the end of 1974, where the outbreak of epidemiology of the liver Bergan resulted in a high rate of deaths amounted to 200 cases and included 150 villages in two provinces in northern India and the impact of 1400 cases of hospitals, all were the result of feeding on corn Stored and contaminated with aflatoxin.
The analysis showed contamination at concentrations of 0.25 to 15.6 mg aflatoxin B1 / kg corn and the chronic effects of aflatoxin cirrhosis.
Besides, aflatoxin has a role in lung cancer, although research has not been able to explain how it reached the human lung, whether through blood circulation or inhalation from the air, and also has a role in causing stomach and intestinal cancer.
Aflatoxin has an epidemiological incidence of the human species, the most important of which occurred in India at the end of 1974, where the outbreak of epidemiology of the liver Bergan resulted in a high rate of deaths amounted to 200 cases and included 150 villages in two provinces in northern India and the impact of 1400 cases of hospitals, all were the result of feeding on corn Stored and contaminated with aflatoxin.
The analysis showed contamination at concentrations of 0.25 to 15.6 mg aflatoxin B1 / kg corn and the chronic effects of aflatoxin cirrhosis.
Besides, aflatoxin has a role in lung cancer, although research has not been able to explain how it reached the human lung, whether through blood circulation or inhalation from the air, and also has a role in causing stomach and intestinal cancer.