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Sleeping Sickness


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Uganda has a reputation for being deepest, darkest Africa with the tropical diseases to prove it. This missionary photograph illustrates Africans suffering from Sleeping Sickness from before World war Two. Conditions had improved a bit, but disease was still an issue to deal with. Picture courtesy of Old East Africa Postcards


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