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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fairygodmother" data-source="post: 1610237" data-attributes="member: 68789"><p>The Hausa have a name for Diabetes, it's chiwan zaki 'wound of sweetness'.  Not sure if my spelling's right.  Treatment may be better now but in the three and a half years we lived in sub-Saharan West Africa back in the 70s people only ever said "My cousin died of it," "My brother died of it," "My aunty died of it."  The only other person I came across was another Brit; he was pretty fearless and had driven across the Sahara with his insulin wrapped in a few socks, at least that was what he said he'd done.  I believe him.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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