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An Untold Story of a Medical Disaster in Colonial Africa

An Untold Story of a Medical Disaster in Colonial Africa

“All the villagers, women and children included, gathered, as they did every year, for their injection of Lomidine. The preventative administration of Lomidine to entire populations, then called “total Lomidinization,” was a priority and a source of pride for this postwar colonial health services. The technique’s efficacy was unprecedented: a single injection of Lomidine conferred […]

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