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Uganda: Nodding Disease Children Improve

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.

Agatha Ayebazibwe/Monitor

The germ which causes river blindness also causes epilepsy in children.

New Vision

Some of the children affected with by nodding disease together with their parents en route to Mulago national referral hospital in Kampala.

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