Livingstone Rousers, I presume…

Sub-Saharan Africa has a panoply of diseases to strike down the most seasoned, inoculated travellers with a bout of hypochondria, so imagine what it was like when Henry Morton Stanley entered the bush 100 years ago, armed only with this case of patent Victorian medicine.

Malaria, sleeping sickness, bilharzia, filiarsis, hookworm, river blindness, dysentry (amoebic and b…

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