Untold Stories

Amy Maxmen interviewing

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“Like a Nightmare”: Amy Maxmen on Konzo

Etienne Tshiluanjim, 28, center in the wheelchair, leaving the Tomisa clinic in Kahemba with a group of children also suffering from konzo

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Bitter Harvest: Cassava and Konzo, the Crippling Disease, Part III

Gaby Ngabu Kasongo and Grace Neema Bandole looking through their engagement photos

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Bitter Harvest: Cassava and Konzo, the Crippling Disease: Part II

Cassava is dried and sold alongside the roads outside of Kahemba.

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Bitter Harvest: Cassava and Konzo, the Crippling Disease: Part I

Men suffering from mycetoma

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The Untold Global Health Story of 2015: Mycetoma

photo of Dr. Ahmed Fahal, of the Mycetoma Research Center, and Nathalie Strub Wourgaft, of the Drugs for Neglected Diseases

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The Opposite of Martin Shkreli: Drug Development Without Profit

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Why Mycetoma? Q&A with Annie Liang and Simran Dhunna

No one knows how many people have mycetoma worldwide, however in a village in central Sudan, a man lists 12 people who have had their legs amputated because of the flesh-eating infection

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First Step for a Dreadful Disease: Get on the List

photo of Amy Maxmen

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Q&A with Amy Maxmen: An Unjust Problem

Patients wait to be seen at the Mycetoma Research Center. Neil Brandvold/DNDi.

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Mycetoma: The Most Neglected Disease

altai mycetoma

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A Flesh-eating Fungus Wrecks Lives and No One Cares