[happygrl]

There is a saying in Africa that "Africans die from diseases that people in other countries survive."

People on that continent are so stressed physiologically from low nutrition, war, lack of access to safe water, no medical care, refugee status, and loss of family members to all of the above that they succumb quickly to whatever disease afflicts them.

This is a spike in what is otherwise a typical week in Africa.

[Sally'sConcerns]

People on that continent are so stressed physiologically from low nutrition, war, lack of access to safe water, no medical care, refugee status, and loss of family members to all of the above that they succumb quickly to whatever disease afflicts them.

Which makes this so ...well, I can't think of the adjective to use, maybe horrific or terrible or awful.

Africa has the natural resources to pull their people out of the poverty and ignorance but because of tribal warfare, dictators and other similar factors, they're doomed to keep up the status quo.

[wideminded]

There is a saying in Africa that "Africans die from diseases that people in other countries survive."

Maybe so, but typically Americans don't have to worry about catching Onchocerciasis (River Blindness), Trypanosomiasis (Sleeping Sickness), Schistosomiasis, Dengue fever, Ebola, or even Malaria. Poor nutrition and medical care are not the only reasons Africans are more likely to have these diseases. The fact is that these are tropical diseases. Americans, Europeans, and others in northern latitudes don't have to worry much about running into a rhinoceros or a lion either.