Map of counties of South Sudan affected by nodding disease in 2011. Several of these are in the Central Equatoria state, in the south of the country near the border with Uganda; Juba on the White Nile is the nation's capital. The red district was already affected in 2001, in yellow districts the disease was prevalent as of 2011 and in green districts there are only sporadic reports.[1]
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Nodding disease, also known as nodding syndrome, is a mentally and physically disabling disease that affects children aged 3 and above, continuing into adulthood.[2] It was first described in 1962 in secluded mountainous regions of Tanzania, with sporadic outbreaks in the decades since in South Sudan, Uganda, and again in Sudan with its largest outbreak from 2016 to present.[2][3][4][5] Since 2019 cases have been identified in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic and Cameroon.
Its cause is unknown, and no cure yet exists.[2]
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