<p>Cecilia Juárez Martínez's life was an intergenerational horror story. Born to a mother who practiced prostitution for a living, and with two older sisters who did the same, it seemed almost inevitable she'd follow the same path. Her almond eyes filled with tears as she told of clients who kidnapped, beat and robbed her, others who left without paying, and one who tried to slash her throat. She told of the painful deaths of her mother and sisters at a young age.</p>
Several years after it was first reported, a debilitating neurological disease with unknown etiology continues to shake communities in South Sudan’s Western Equatoria state and still has the medical community stumped.