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On the whole the Jaqaj are a healthy people, in spite of endemic malaria and yaws and recurrent influenza epidemics. To a somewhat lesser degree they suffered from diarrhoea, nao-muj; dysentery, nao-kam; and skin diseases, bumungk, of various kinds. Filariasis and leprosy were relatively rare, as was insanity, which was described as ko-oraq, “madness came over him”.
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Boelaars, J.H.M.C. (1981). Illness and Death. In: Head-Hunters About Themselves. Verhandelingen, vol 92. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6806-9_9
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