Post by emali on Mar 22, 2012 16:01:40 GMT 3
A mysterious nodding disease outbreak is currently being reported in Uganda…
edition.cnn.com/2012/03/19/world/africa/uganda-nodding-disease/index.html?hpt=iaf_c2
It was initially reported last June based on this youtube video…
A quick Wikipedia search shows the following…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nodding_disease
Nodding disease or nodding syndrome is a recent, little-known disease which emerged in Sudan in the 1960s.[1] It is a fatal, mentally and physically disabling disease that only affects children, typically between the ages of 5 and 15. It is currently restricted to small regions in South Sudan, Tanzania, and northern Uganda.[2][3] Prior to the South Sudan outbreaks and subsequent limited spread, the disease was first described in 1962 existing in secluded mountainous regions of Tanzania,[4] although the connection between that disease and nodding syndrome was only made recently.[3]
Continued…its symptoms…
The symptoms of nodding disease are very peculiar. When a child is affected by it, his/her growth is stunted completely and permanently. The growth of the brain is also stunted, leading to mental retardation of the affected individual. The disease is named nodding syndrome due to the characteristic, pathological nodding seizure. The seizure often begins when the child begins to eat, or sometimes when he/she feels cold.[5] These seizures are brief and halt after the child stops eating or when they feel warm again. These seizures can manifest themselves with a wide degree of severity. Neurotoxicologist Peter Spencer, who has investigated the disease has stated that upon presentation with food, "one or two [children] will start nodding very rapidly in a continuous, pendulous nod. The child next door will suddenly go into a grand-mal seizure, others will freeze."[6] Severe seizures can cause the child to collapse, leading to further injury.[7] Sub-clinical seizures have been identified in electroencephalograms, and MRI scans have shown brain atrophy and damage to the hippocampus and glia cells.[4]
A curious feature is that no seizures occur when victims are given an unfamiliar food, for example a candy bar.[8]
The last major outbreak occurred around 2002/2003 in South Sudan…no one seemed too know where the disease came from but many had their theories…
web.archive.org/web/20060519084631/http://www.yaleph.com/archive/vol1no1/reg_focus.html
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3133440.stm
Is it a coincidence that most new highly contagious diseases seem to ‘originate’ from East and Central Africa? i.e. Ebola, AIDS and now Nodding Disease. Using AIDS as an example we see the first original reports in Africa originated from Uganda in the early eighties and neighboring Zaire…
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2864575
The AIDS epidemic was first noticed among gay men in New York and California as early as 1981 contrary to the widely held belief that it originated in Africa. My theory on this nodding disease is tied to vaccines administered to unsuspecting Africans like some hypothesize was the real cause of AIDS…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPV_AIDS_hypothesis
I don’t doubt for a second that these humongous pharmaceutical companies still perform these tests across Africa today…hopefully this nodding disease can be contained and not spread across the border…
edition.cnn.com/2012/03/19/world/africa/uganda-nodding-disease/index.html?hpt=iaf_c2
It was initially reported last June based on this youtube video…
A quick Wikipedia search shows the following…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nodding_disease
Nodding disease or nodding syndrome is a recent, little-known disease which emerged in Sudan in the 1960s.[1] It is a fatal, mentally and physically disabling disease that only affects children, typically between the ages of 5 and 15. It is currently restricted to small regions in South Sudan, Tanzania, and northern Uganda.[2][3] Prior to the South Sudan outbreaks and subsequent limited spread, the disease was first described in 1962 existing in secluded mountainous regions of Tanzania,[4] although the connection between that disease and nodding syndrome was only made recently.[3]
Continued…its symptoms…
The symptoms of nodding disease are very peculiar. When a child is affected by it, his/her growth is stunted completely and permanently. The growth of the brain is also stunted, leading to mental retardation of the affected individual. The disease is named nodding syndrome due to the characteristic, pathological nodding seizure. The seizure often begins when the child begins to eat, or sometimes when he/she feels cold.[5] These seizures are brief and halt after the child stops eating or when they feel warm again. These seizures can manifest themselves with a wide degree of severity. Neurotoxicologist Peter Spencer, who has investigated the disease has stated that upon presentation with food, "one or two [children] will start nodding very rapidly in a continuous, pendulous nod. The child next door will suddenly go into a grand-mal seizure, others will freeze."[6] Severe seizures can cause the child to collapse, leading to further injury.[7] Sub-clinical seizures have been identified in electroencephalograms, and MRI scans have shown brain atrophy and damage to the hippocampus and glia cells.[4]
A curious feature is that no seizures occur when victims are given an unfamiliar food, for example a candy bar.[8]
The last major outbreak occurred around 2002/2003 in South Sudan…no one seemed too know where the disease came from but many had their theories…
web.archive.org/web/20060519084631/http://www.yaleph.com/archive/vol1no1/reg_focus.html
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3133440.stm
Is it a coincidence that most new highly contagious diseases seem to ‘originate’ from East and Central Africa? i.e. Ebola, AIDS and now Nodding Disease. Using AIDS as an example we see the first original reports in Africa originated from Uganda in the early eighties and neighboring Zaire…
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2864575
The AIDS epidemic was first noticed among gay men in New York and California as early as 1981 contrary to the widely held belief that it originated in Africa. My theory on this nodding disease is tied to vaccines administered to unsuspecting Africans like some hypothesize was the real cause of AIDS…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPV_AIDS_hypothesis
I don’t doubt for a second that these humongous pharmaceutical companies still perform these tests across Africa today…hopefully this nodding disease can be contained and not spread across the border…