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    BBC News Africa‏Verified account @BBCAfrica 29 Jan 2016

    Inside Uganda's forest where #Zikavirus first originates in the 1940s http://bbc.in/1SolMsP pic.twitter.com/8QypQqcTme

    6:53 AM - 29 Jan 2016
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    20 replies 47 retweets 31 likes
      1. Mike 🇲🇼‏ @Arsemickey 29 Jan 2016
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        @BBCAfrica But of course let's blame Africa again

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      1.  😍Qinisela 😍‏ @MissKue_Angie 29 Jan 2016
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        @BBCAfrica so evry virus has to come from africa and the antidote from america nxaa sies

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      2. Colin Williams‏ @SabotagedFool 29 Jan 2016
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        .@BBCAfrica I thought it was only discovered 6months ago... or was it only discovered in the Americas 6months ago..? #Zika

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      1. Maurice Okonmah‏ @MOkonmah 29 Jan 2016
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        @BBCAfrica you just have to trace it back to Africa right? Great job

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      1. richardz‏ @richard16735652 29 Jan 2016
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        @BBCAfrica OSCARS are always white!DISEASES are always black☝

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      1. Asiimwe R. Bosco‏ @ABRwabs 29 Jan 2016
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        @BBCAfrica everything, almost, originates from #Africa!!!! this world!

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      1. Jeleel Agboola‏ @jeleelagboola 29 Jan 2016
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        @BBCAfrica can you imagine every bad thing always originate from Africa.

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      1. Ogun‏ @ogungbola 29 Jan 2016
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        @BBCAfrica. Same old shit. Blame Poor Africa for Everything. Nothing good ever comes out of Africa apart from Humanity

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      1. S. Andrew Musoke‏ @UGzSolution 29 Jan 2016
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        @BBCAfrica Really... Uganda?? 1940s? No one cared then?

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      1. atuhairwe esther‏ @eseriatu 29 Jan 2016
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        @BBCAfrica please BBC leave Africa out of this

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      1. atuhairwe esther‏ @eseriatu 29 Jan 2016
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        @BBCAfrica Africans do you develop these diseases. Now this.

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      1. Gcchukwuma‏ @blazing_cross 29 Jan 2016
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        @BBCAfrica @CNN am not surprised was expecting this!!! Every disease has to be from Africa, while every innovation is western. Racists

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      1. Michael Lawrence‏ @mikelaw63 29 Jan 2016
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        @BBCAfrica It's a shame how our white society blame all disease starting point to Africa. @DrOz

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      1. Dan Wandera Ogalo‏ @DanOgalo 29 Jan 2016
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        @BBCAfrica If true then obviously we Ugandans developed immunity to the disease and WHO should research here.

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      1. Mustafa Anikota‏ @Anikota_Mani10 29 Jan 2016
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        @bbcafrica Thats y we always argue, life began in our beautiful continent and Adam was black.

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      1. Pfananani Ramulifho‏ @Pfani_success 29 Jan 2016
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        @BBCAfrica it will never be not in Africa.

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      1. leo the 'sincere'‏ @ndiL3O 29 Jan 2016
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        @BBCAfrica Expected this. Wondered y Zika hd 2 b in S America nt Africa. We usd 2 BBC, CNN etc potrayin us negativly @SINDORA_zw @PDealz #nx

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      1. JUNIOR SILVA‏ @ajaxsp186 29 Jan 2016
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        @BBCAfrica ALL PROBLEMS ARE ORIGINATES FROM AFRICA??? WHITES LIE,ARE FALSES,ARE KINGS OF DESTRUCTION HUMAN..AFRICA IS GUILTY??? LIES.

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