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The dark heart of Africa was a blind spot for science. Biologists, doctors and earth scientists discovered a new world there. Malaria caused many victims among the indigenous population and made the lives of the pioneers very difficult. Brochure, Le parasite de la malaria, 1899.
NAB, Archives Hubert Droogmans, no. 119.
NAB, Archives Hubert Droogmans, no. 119.
