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to Yakoma. A lazaret was established in 1909 in an attempt to deal with the problem, despite lack of support from the territorial administration. More than 200 victims were buried at Yakoma between November 1910 and August 1911. By November 1912 as many as 70% of the people in some villages had been
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Today there is a hospital in the town with 91 beds and an occupancy rate of 70%–90%. As of 2007 there were two doctors associated with the hospital and 13 nurses.
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Sleeping sickness seems to have been introduced to the area through the rise in canoe traffic to provision the colonial posts along the river from
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established a post at Yakoma for collection of ivory and rubber. It lay opposite the original French capital of
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The Colonial Disease: A Social History of Sleeping Sickness in Northern Zaire, 1900-1940
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Index

Yakoma Territory
Commune
Yakoma is located in Democratic Republic of the Congo
4°05′53″N 22°26′35″E / 4.098178°N 22.44318°E / 4.098178; 22.44318
DR Congo
Province
Nord-Ubangi
Territory
Time zone
UTC+1
West Africa Time
Nord-Ubangi
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Uele River
Ubangi River
Central African Republic
Congo Free State
Ubangi-Shari
Central African Republic
les Abiras
extracted the resources by force
Libenge
Blaes 2008
Knox 2011
Knox 2011
Lyons 2002
Dorman 1905
Lyons 2002
Lyons 2002
Medics without Vacation

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