More than 3,000 children in Northern Uganda have been struck by the mysterious Nodding Disease that shatters lives and has doctors puzzled.

Still, assuming nodding syndrome is associated with O. volvulus, it may have been present as far back as the 1870s — when onchocerciasis, or river blindness, was first described by doctors.

Omac and Kibwota suffer from nodding syndrome, a neurological disease for which the cause has not yet been conclusively identified. In northern Uganda, a region fraught by years of civil war, the ...

One key symptom is repetitive head nodding, which can be rapid, with sufferers repeating the motion up to 20 times a minute. The disease is not contagious between humans and cases have been ...

Doxycycline was safe and may be effective as adjunctive therapy to antiseizure medication in young people with nodding syndrome, according to research from Lancet Global Health.“Despite multiple ...

It is characterised by repetitive nodding seizures, cognitive decline, and severe stunting of growth. In Omoro, the prevalence of nodding disease is alarmingly high, with more than 300 reported cases.

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