Doctors say they are seeing an improvement in the condition of children affected by the disease.
Uganda: Doctors Continue Nodding Disease Research
Doctors are continuing to do research on what causes the mysterious nodding disease and how best it can be eliminated. So far thousands of children have been affected with at least 100 reported dead.
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Uganda: Last Group of Nodding Disease Children Discharged
New Vision, 29 March 2012
The last group of children suffering from nodding disease has been discharged from Mulago national referral hospital. Read more »
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Uganda: 20 Nodding Disease Children Discharged
New Vision, 21 March 2012
About twenty victims of the nodding disease have been discharged from Mulago national hospital, the hospital's spokesperson Dan Kimosho has said. Read more »
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Uganda: Govt Turns to Choppers to Fight Nodding Disease
Observer, 16 March 2012
Government is considering using helicopters to spray areas affected by the nodding disease, the minister of Health, Dr Catherine Ondoa, has said. Read more »
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Uganda: North Has Highest Number of Nodding Syndrome Cases
RFI, 16 March 2012
Uganda's northern district of Pader district has recorded the highest number of cases of patients with nodding disease according to the latest health report. Read more »
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Uganda: Women Lament Nodding Disease
Observer, 14 March 2012
Women have called on Ugandans to join them in the fight against the nodding disease, which has claimed at least 200 children's lives in northern Uganda. Read more »
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Uganda: 'Nodding Disease Is Caused By Spirits'
New Vision, 17 March 2012
The leader of Ugandan traditional healers, Sylvia Namutebi aka Mama Fina has said nodding disease is not a medical problem, but a spiritual one. Read more »
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Doctors say they are seeing an improvement in the condition of children affected by the mysterious nodding disease. Over 3 000 children have been affected, with 170 reported dead. Read more »
