Keshan disease

English Etymology Named after Keshan (zh 克山) County of Heilongjiang province, Northeast China, where symptoms were first noted. Noun - A congestive cardiomyopathy caused by a combination of dietary deficiency of selenium and the presence of a mutated strain of coxsackievirus. en 1994 John M. C. Gutteridge w:Barry Halliwell Antioxidant vitamins and nutrients Antioxidants in Nutrition, Health, and Disease https://archive.org/details/antioxidantsinnu00gutt/ Oxford; New York; Tokyo w:Oxford University Press 0-19-854902-4 94-18907 30593269 74 https://archive.org/details/antioxidantsinnu00gutt/page/74/ Keshan disease is a degenerative disease, particularly affecting the heart, that is prevented by supplementation of the diet with a selenium salt. The name comes from an episode in 1935 in which 57 out of 286 inhabitants of a village in Keshan County of Heilongjiang Province died of the disease. en Diseases en terms derived from toponyms