Refugee Camp, Las Dhure, Somalia, 1981 - It was very early in the morning with a mist in the air and Dr. Eric Avery was already treating young and old suffering from dysentery, yellow fever and starvation. The camp had been set up to house the thousands who arrived daily from war-torn Ethiopia, walking for miles with whatever possessions they could carry to get there. The chanting, the moaning, and the dying never stopped.

 

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