January 31, 2012 — The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued recommendations geared toward controlling an outbreak of nodding syndrome in South Sudan. The permanent neurologic ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The study included 240 patients with nodding syndrome given doxycycline or placebo. Doxycycline may help reduce ...

Uganda has opened its first clinics specifically set up to help thousands of children who have a mysterious fatal condition known as nodding syndrome. The disease's cause is unknown, but it affects ...

On Monday, World Health Organization officials and scientists will gather in Uganda to discuss a mysterious affliction, called “nodding disease,” that is affecting almost 3,000 children in the African ...

PADER DISTRICT, Uganda (Reuters) - Most mornings, Michael Odongkara takes his daughter Nancy Lamwaka outside and ties her ankle to a mango tree. It's not something he likes to do. But the disease that ...

Nodding Syndrome Devastates Uganda Over 4,000 children in northern Uganda are afflicted by nodding syndrome, a disease which affects the neurological system, is of unknown origins and has no known ...

Leaders say some victims cannot remember who sexually attacked them since the disease affects their memory The growing cases of sexual abuse against young girls with Nodding Syndrome have pushed ...

KITGUM, Uganda - Augustine Languna's eyes welled up and then his voice failed as he recalled the drowning death of his 16-year-old daughter. The women near him looked away, respectfully avoiding the ...

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