🦠 Mystery Illness in the Dhala Valley

February 1944. A doctor investigates. And my mother, another doctor, investigates the investigation.

This is the description of an epidemic which commenced in the Dhala valley near the Yemen border in August 1943 and which is continuing.

I abridge a presentation written and presented by my mum, Dr. Áine McCoy, to the Wellington Medical Historical Society.

This report, entitled Secret. Social Conditions in The Dhala Valley February 1944, has lain in my fa…