The most famous case in Africa of Big Cats preying on men was described in the auto-biographical account of John Henry Patterson called The Man-Eaters of Tsavo. The Tsavo Man-Eaters were a pair of man-eating male lions in the Tsavo region of Kenya, which were responsible for the deaths of many construction workers on the Kenya-Uganda Railway between March and December 1898. The lion pair was said to have killed 135 people total, but modern estimates place it at 35 total. It was one of the most notorious instances of dangers posed to Indian and native African workers of the Uganda Railway where hostile wildlife and diseases both were frequent sources of deaths in the 1890s-1900s. The account was also given a film treatment, The Ghost and the Darkness (1996), starring Michael Douglas and Val Kilmer.
Taylor Sheridan said in an interview: "Nairobi was this incredible colonial, and I say incredible only that they had built this playground for the elite in the middle of where we evolved, and the danger of the place was the allure. It was wickedly dangerous, and there's a romanticism, as opposed to the fatalism of '1883 (2021)'...A friend of mine, I went through her photographs from her trip to Africa," he began. "I started reading about these people living in Africa, attempting but failing to duplicate the American expansion in a place that was where we all came from [...Africa]." He went on to explain that these people-these pioneers-eventually built amazing cities in Africa, Nairobi being one. (Said in context - in actual fact, the British expansion in east Africa was indeed a tremendous success, continuing to present day in which relations between Kenya and Britain are quite amicable.)
"Texas Fever", or babesiosis, a disease of cattle and other livestock, transmitted by the bite of ticks. It affects the red blood cells and causes the passing of red or blackish urine.
Tanganyika was a former German colony due south of Kenya that came into British possession at the end of WWI. Along with Kenya an Uganda, it became part of British East Africa. In 1964 Tanganyika and the island of Zanzibar united to form what is modern-day Tanzania. The name Tanganyika refers to a "sail on the grass", which is the strange sight that could be seen from a distance when approaching the lake which lay along the western border.
The Spanish Flu, or Pandemic of 1918 (1918-1920) was a variant of avian flu which caused the death of 25-50 million people and infected nearly 500 million worldwide. In the United States, first contact with the virus occurred when returning soldiers from the First World War came back stateside, which was one of three waves which hit the country. Mortality was higher in people younger than 5 years old, as well as healthy people in 20-40 year age bracket, was a unique feature of this pandemic. With no vaccine to protect against influenza infection and no antibiotics to treat secondary bacterial infections that can be associated with influenza infections, control efforts worldwide were limited to non-pharmaceutical interventions such as isolation, quarantine, good personal hygiene, use of disinfectants, and limitations of public gatherings (community spread), which were not applied even-handed. An estimated, a third of the world's population was infected with the 1918 flu virus.