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Skeletal fluorosis in a resettled refugee from Kakuma refugee camp.

“I suspected some contamination of the water of the much-frequented street pump in Broad Street, near the end of Cambridge Street”, said John Snow, about the contaminated water pump of the cholera outbreak of 1854, in London, UK.1 In September, 2015, a Somalian man aged 46 years presented to a refugee clinic within 1 month of resettlement to Canada. From 2009 to 2015, this patient had lived in the Kakuma refugee camp (Rift Valley Province, Kenya), which houses 184, 966 inhabitants.2