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Life-saving wonder rats
Friday August 08 2008
AS A newly qualified veterinary surgeon, I spent a year working in Africa. I was researching tickborne diseases in Swaziland, a small landlocked country the size of Wales, between South Africa and Mozambique. At that time – the mid-1980s – South Africa was still under the thumb of full-scale apartheid, with Nelson Mandela in jail, and civil war had reduced Mozambique to a complete no-go area.
