Why does the Tanzanian Negro albino not live to mature?

The disease, characterized by an innate absence of pigment in the skin, its appendages, iridescent and pigmented envelopes of the eyes, is usually called albinism. The color of the body tissues depends on a special substance - melanin, for the normal synthesis of which the enzyme of tironase is needed. When this enzyme is not present, there is no pigment. White skin and hair from albinos since birth. Are not exceptions and black albinos. In most cases, there is convergent strabismus and reduced visual acuity. There are no effective methods of treating the disease. Patients are advised not to expose themselves to irradiation with sunlight, and when leaving the street to apply light-protection means: darkened lenses, sunglasses, filters. To save the health of people with this pathology is not difficult, but this little black-albino (photo placed below) has practically no chance to live up to its fortieth anniversary.

Scientists can not answer the question about why in Tanzania and other East African countries albinos are born 15 times more than the average on the planet. A black albino is very vulnerable, since, no matter how it sounds, it is an object of real hunting. "Classic Negroes" cut them into pieces, and then eat them as a medicine. According to an ancient belief, the flesh of an albino possesses medicinal properties. Local sorcerers and healers treat even AIDS, appointing as dried medicines the dried genitals of a "transparent" kindred. The murders of white Negroes are of a large scale. There are data confirming that since 2006 at the hands of hunters 71 nigger-albinos have died, and More than 30 managed to escape from the killers. The excitement of hunters is quite understandable: the flesh of the albino, sold in parts, yields an income calculated in a very decent amount: from 50 to 100 thousand dollars.

Until recently, cannibals managed to escape responsibility. The abducted and killed negro albino was declared "missing", and the authorities did not attempt to search for him and punish the criminals. However, the brutal practices in Tanzania were and continue to cause outrage in the West, so the authorities had to deal with the hunters' punishment of people. Relatively recently, in 2009, three men were sentenced to death, with whom a 14-year-old Caucasian boy was caught and chopped to pieces. This was the first trial of cannibals, which forced them to change tactics. From now on, a negro-albino caught has a chance to remain alive, although it is pretty badly crippled - without hands and feet. Hunters on people switched to chopping limbs of albinos, which, if caught by criminals, threatens them with 5 to 8 years of imprisonment for serious bodily harm.

Here are a few more figures of sad statistics. 90 albinos over the past 3 years were deprived of limbs, three of them died from the injuries. The reason that only 2% of Tanzanian Negroes with a diagnosis of albinism survive to 40 years of age is not only their extermination for the sake of eating. In conditions of poverty, it is difficult to ensure the preservation of vision, which albinos, barely reaching adolescence, lose by 60-80%. The likelihood of developing skin cancer for albino at the age of 30 is 60%. Residents of one of the poorest countries on the planet, born with a diagnosis of albinism, need the support of a civilized world community.