I’m on assignment for the Süddeutsche Zeitung far in the North of Uganda. Here a new form of epilepsy is spreading. Children start nodding, have hallucinations and are apathic. The new sickness is currently completely unknown for doctors.
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Woodcutter cutting unnatural eucalyptus trees in Gishwati Forest. The forest is a protected reserve in the north-western part of Rwanda. During the Rwandan Genocide, refugees arrived in Gishwati Forest and began clearing it, often for subsistence farming. Reforestation efforts in the past few years have increased the remnant native forest to about 2,500 acres (10 km²).
