Uganda: Nodding Syndrome - Experts Make Major Breakthrough

25 September 2018

Kampala — A group of six scientists have announced a breakthrough about Nodding Syndrome, concluding the condition is a result of abnormal deposit of protein in the brains.

The findings, first published last week in Acta Neuropathologica-Springer, a peer reviewed monthly journal on neuropathology, follows a year-long research and multiple examination of brain tissues of children who died of Nodding Syndrome in northern Uganda.

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