Body parts prescribed for life’s ills
Published: 11 June, 2009, 17:22
Combine greed or desperation with traditional medicine and too often the outcome is mutilation and murder.
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Published: 11 June, 2009, 17:22
Combine greed or desperation with traditional medicine and too often the outcome is mutilation and murder.
