Ntds In The Heart Of Darkness

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When Marlow is talking about Kurtz’s control over the natives, he is sympathetic towards the natives about Kurtz’s ruthless punishments. Although starvation was the leading punishment to the natives, in an article called “NTDs in the Heart of Darkness: The Democratic Republic of Congo’s Unknown Burden of Neglected Tropical Disease”, it discusses the diseases that the natives received in the neglection of colonialism.
“Beyond sleeping sickness, the decades of conflict and breakdowns in health infrastructure have contributed to the high prevalence of several NTDS (neglected tropical diseases), although paradoxically conflict may not be a significant factor in the emergence of malaria and HIV/AIDS in the Democratic Republic Congo” (Rimoin 1),

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