Nodding disease.

[warrior queen]

No known cause or treatment. No cure. Only affects children.
Over 4000 children in Uganda have this, which is characterised by seizures causing a peculiar 'nodding' movement, as well as regression in language skills and the ability to move limbs effectively.
Why has no-one heard of this?

 

[CandiCame]

No known cause or treatment. No cure. Only affects children.
Over 4000 children in Uganda have this, which is characterised by seizures causing a peculiar 'nodding' movement, as well as regression in language skills and the ability to move limbs effectively.
Why has no-one heard of this?

Well... that's depressing as fuck.

 

[Bert Notorius]

Uganda doesn't generally put information about it on the tourism brochures.

 

[eyer]

Why has no-one heard of this?

Because you're just so much more with it than anyone else?

 

[warrior queen]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nodding_disease

It's been around for a while, apparently.

 

[warrior queen]

Because you're just so much more with it than anyone else?

It might be because I have done everything I need to do here, and am relaxing in front of the news with a coffee, and saw a report about it?
Coz, yanno, I sometimes give a damn about what's happening on my planet.

 

[islandman]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nodding_disease

It's been around for a while, apparently.

It's been around for 40-odd years in a geography that barely has electricity much less a national health system.

Why is it then that you're so surprised that it's unfamiliar to most?

 

[warrior queen]

Well... that's depressing as fuck.

It is, isn't it
I forget sometimes, just because we can medically repair the heart of a foetus in utero, not all illnesses can be fixed.

 

[CandiCame]

It might be because I have done everything I need to do here, and am relaxing in front of the news with a coffee, and saw a report about it?
Coz, yanno, I sometimes give a damn about what's happening on my planet.

I'm thinking about stopping giving a damn. It's bad for my depression. I just read my daily slew of news and I learned about a Peace Corps worker who got arrested falsely and is now in jail in some third world country, and a little boy with downs syndrome who's mom is suing the school because he was abused by the teachers. I mean, I'm seriously already pretty suicidal. Why do I read this shit?

 

[warrior queen]

It's been around for 40-odd years in a geography that barely has electricity much less a national health system.

Why is it then that you're so surprised that it's unfamiliar to most?

I travelled extensively through Africa in the 80's, and lived in a few different places for months at a time... And never heard about this.
It shocked me because it attacks only children, not adults.

 

[TonyClifton]

No known cause or treatment. No cure. Only affects children. Over 4000 children in Uganda have this, which is characterized by seizures causing a peculiar 'nodding' movement, as well as regression in language skills. Has anyone heard of this?

It should be renamed to "Literotica Forum Syndrome."

 

[islandman]

I travelled extensively through Africa in the 80's, and lived in a few different places for months at a time... And never heard about this.
It shocked me because it attacks only children, not adults.

It's a really, really, really big continent that the modern world has yet to fully explore.

 

[warrior queen]

It's a really, really, really big continent that the modern world has yet to fully explore.

I know you're right.... but I can't help feeling that this sort of thing should have been getting more attention and resources to help.
HIV was largely confined to Africa for many years before it became global. It would be horrific if this illness somehow did the same.

 

[CandiCame]

I know you're right.... but I can't help feeling that this sort of thing should have been getting more attention and resources to help.
HIV was largely confined to Africa for many years before it became global. It would be horrific if this illness somehow did the same.

Wait, really? I didn't know that. I thought AIDs was kind always a thing.

 

[Beco]

No known cause or treatment. No cure. Only affects children.
Over 4000 children in Uganda have this, which is characterised by seizures causing a peculiar 'nodding' movement, as well as regression in language skills and the ability to move limbs effectively.
Why has no-one heard of this?

Probably because its in Uganda....