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1 THAT’S CEREBRAL “That’s cerebral,” the doctor said and it dispersed slick through thick air quiet barracuda shuttling sound away from mouth mutating it to mean. A compliment in another place here sticks here clots here a death sentence this time to a tribe full of other times. There a strong man whose great ideas cannot be said a lone umbrella acacia alone. Here a girl of ten confused why her arms won’t raise when she’s asked to raise them and her baby brothers. A tribe muscled with dwindling where cured malaria leaves trails like listening. 2 “Roughly one in ten children will suffer from neurological impairment after cerebral malaria, be it epilepsy, learning disability, changes in behaviour, loss of coordination or impairments to speech. As well as being discomforting physically, these problems can also lead to stigmatisation in the community and can reduce individuals’ capacity for work, imposing an additional economic burden.” — Ian Jones, “Neurological Damage from Malaria,” Wellcome Trust, 12 June 2002 ...

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