Posted AT 4:20 AM EST on 16/07/08
Doctors, activists work to stop clay eating in Africa
MAKENI, SIERRA LEONE — Aisha Jalloh takes one of the hard, smooth balls of clay and rolls it in her hand. It looks like a fossilized dinosaur egg."I know it is bad but I wanted to sustain the baby, so I eat it," she says, looking at her newborn daughter. While she was pregnant she would eat between 10 and 15 balls of clay each day. Sometimes she roasted them, sometimes she ate them plain.
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