‘I could feel the worms’
The Telegraph, 29 January 2025
Neglected victims of Loiasis find hope in a remote research station:
Millions of people are infested with parasitic worms without relief — but this may soon change
Albertine Badolé does not remember when a worm first wriggled across her eyeball.
It was many years ago, but what she can still recall is the itching and the swelling in her face.
“Sometimes when I slept, I could feel the worms, there were little lumps on my body, and my eyes… It was like things were moving inside me,” the 54-year old says, sitting outside her house in the remote village of Sindara in the rainforests of Gabon. “It was too much.” …
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