Uganda: 'Haunted' Children Slow to Receive Help
While scientists scramble to identify a treatment, victims of the unexplained neurological condition, nodding disease must endure symptoms including mental retardation, epilepsy and rashes.
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Uganda: 'Haunted' Children Slow to Receive Medical Help
Inter Press Service, 20 September 2012
On a wet earth littered with fresh fruit from a large mango tree in Tumangu village in northern Uganda, Betty Olana (42) sits on a papyrus mat watching over four emaciated children ... read more »
Constant flow of saliva is one of the symptoms of nodding disease.
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Uganda: Nodding Syndrome Baffles Scientists
UN Integrated Regional Information Networks, 2 August 2012
A four-day international scientific meeting in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, highlighted the many unknowns of so-called "nodding disease" or "nodding syndrome", which has affected ... read more »
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Uganda: Scientists Meet in Uganda Over Mysterious Nodding Disease
Capital FM, 1 August 2012
Scientists from around the world are meeting in the Ugandan capital Kampala to discuss the nodding disease whose cause is not known but continues to ravage rural communities in ... read more »
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Uganda: Finding Nodding Disease Cure Will Take Years - Expert
The Observer, 18 July 2012
An expert involved in researching the nodding disease syndrome that has ravaged parts of northern Uganda has said it will take years before a cure is found. read more »
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Uganda: Uganda Invites Global Experts Over Nodding Disease
New Vision, 18 July 2012
AS nodding disease continues to attack children in northern Uganda, international experts who have worked on a similar disease in South Sudan, Tanzania and Liberia have been ... read more »
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Uganda: Is Uganda Losing Battle Against Nodding Disease? (analysis)
Institute for War & Peace Reporting, 10 July 2012
As the nodding disease crisis in northern Uganda worsens, local health workers and parents have told IWPR that many of the children affected are still struggling to access ... read more »
InFocus
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Legislators on a select committee instituted to carry out research on areas affected by nodding disease have ordered ministry of health to account for sh400 allocated for research ... Read more »
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