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Epidemic Disease in African History II: Viral Diseases

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While the British and French seemed mystified by the high numbers of deaths which accompanied the exploration of West Africa at the beginning of the nineteenth century, as evinced by the number of medical treatises on the fevers they attributed them to, Pereira as early as 1508 had warned of the dangers of fever on the West Coast, “… this river [Sassandra], like all the rivers of Guinea, is rife with fever”. Of Axim, “The country is called Axem and is very subject to fever”. Again, writing of the Niger Delta, “The rivers are rife with fever..” (Kimble 1937). Before this, Fernandes wrote in 1456 the river Gambia was “very unhealthy for Christians which go there”. The Cape Verde Islands, had been very healthy such that all the lepers which went there were cured, “But now, they are so unhealthy that even the people in good health fall sick. I think it is the Blacks which come here have corrupted the air, and the country has become unhealthy like them” (Monod et al. 1951).

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