recently published survey of the health situation in southern Sudan prepared by Unicef (http://www.unsudanig.org/ Library/Data/Statistics & Assessments/ health_overview.pdf). Many children with the disease also have severely retarded growth. The author of the report, Mickey Richer, a US paediatrician working for Unicef in southern Sudan, visited Lui recently to monitor some patients she has
... [Show full abstract] studied for several years. She found no new cases but those who had the disorder continued to deteriorate. Phillip Badi’s family has been hit particularly hard. He lives in Amadi, a village just down the rough road from Lui that has a concentration of nodding cases. Of his six children, two boys have severe forms of nodding disease, and one girl had episodes of nodding a few times.