The Most Malarial Town on Earth

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Doctors in Apac may see as many as 3,000 patients a week, and even 5,000 in the rainy season. Malaria affects half the world's countries, but seven of them — the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, southern Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda — account for two-thirds of the cases, and Nigeria a quarter by itself.

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