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Quote from Bill Bryson's African Diary by Bill Bryson:

• "So how dangerous is Kenya then?" I asked in a small, controlled squeak.

  "Oh, not at all," they responded in unison.

  "Well, hardly," Will added.

  "It depends on what you mean by dangerous, of course," said Dan.

  "Like bleeding and not getting up again," I suggested. "Being shot and stabbed and so forth," I added.

  They assured me that that only rarely happened, and that it was nearly always one or the other. You had to be very unlucky to be shot and stabbed, they said.

  "It's mostly diseases you have to worry about," Nick went on. "Malaria, schistosomiasis, trypanosomiasis ..."

  "Rift Valley fever, blackwater fever, yellow fever ..." said Dan.

  "Dengue fever, bilharzia - the usual tropical stuff," added Will.

  But they pointed out that you can be inoculated against many of those and for the rest most people manage a more or less complete recovery, given time and a considered programme of physiotherapy. Many even walk again. I asked if there was anything else I should know.

  "Well, the roads are a little dangerous - there are some crazy drivers out there," Will said, chuckling.

  "But apart from that and the diseases and the bandits and the railway from Nairobi to Mombasa, there's absolutely nothing to worry about," Nick added.

  "What's wrong with the railway?"

  "Oh, nothing really. It's just the rolling stock is a little antiquated and sometimes the brakes give out coming down out of the mountains - but hey, if you worried about all the things that might happen you wouldn't go anywhere, would you?"

  "I don't go anywhere," I pointed out.

  [p. 10-11]