{"id":1053102,"date":"2011-05-29T15:54:39","date_gmt":"2011-05-29T15:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/neurology\/nodding-disease-sudan-and-ugandas-incurable-child-disease-with-unknown-cause.php"},"modified":"2024-08-17T18:48:09","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T22:48:09","slug":"nodding-disease-sudan-and-ugandas-incurable-child-disease-with-unknown-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/neurology\/nodding-disease-sudan-and-ugandas-incurable-child-disease-with-unknown-cause.php","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Nodding disease&#8217; &#8211; Sudan and Uganda&#8217;s incurable child disease with unknown cause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/mbjQu_g17OE\">AlJazeeraEnglish<\/a>: Hundreds of children in southern Sudan have died from a mysterious illness that they have called the \"nodding disease\". The mentally and physically disabling disease, which has no cure yet and affects only children, first emerged in Sudan in 1980s.<\/p><p>\"We have no clue as what is causing this. It's like a detective novel and a murder mystery, because it's fatal,\" says a tropical disease specialist from UNICEF.<\/p><p>Bizarrely, the seizures occur when the sufferers start to eat, or when it is particularly cold. When a bowl of sorghum is placed in front of Susannah, the \"nodding\" begins almost immediately, and stop when she has finished eating.<\/p><p>Some villagers say the disease is a curse, others blame the country's long civil war and suspect that government forces have been dropping chemical weapons.<\/p><p>93% of those surveyed are infected with a parasitic worm which causes Onchocerciasis (also known as river blindness). However, the level of infection among children without \"nodding\" is 63%. The worm is carried by black flies which breed near fast-flowing rivers.<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/LwOUzE03xm0\">A team of CDC experts<\/a> conducts a multifaceted investigation in northern Uganda. An Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer tells the story about Nodding Disease, a neurologic syndrome which is devastating to afflicted children.<\/p><p>References:<br><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/3133440.stm\">'Nodding disease' hits Sudan<\/a>. BBC, 2003.<\/p><div><p>Posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/casesblog.blogspot.com\/\">Clinical Cases and Images<\/a>. 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The mentally and physically disabling disease, which has no cure yet and affects only children, first emerged in Sudan in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/neurology\/nodding-disease-sudan-and-ugandas-incurable-child-disease-with-unknown-cause.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1246864],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1053102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neurology"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1053102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1053102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1053102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1053102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}