Sunday Reading

I read a crazy and disturbing article on Albino's in Africa while working at the hospital yesterday.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/08/world/africa/08albino.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hp

Many people in Tanzania — and across Africa, for that matter — believe albinos have magical powers. They stand out, often the lone white face in a black crowd, a result of a genetic condition that impairs normal skin pigmentation and strikes about 1 in 3,000 people here. Tanzanian officials say witch doctors are now marketing albino skin, bones and hair as ingredients in potions that are promised to make people rich

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