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'Nodding disease' confounds experts, kills children (Africa)
Yahoo/AFP ^

Posted on 02/18/2012 12:10:07 PM PST by nuconvert

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For several years, scientists have tried and failed to determine the cause of the illness, which locals say has killed hundreds of youngsters.

What they do know is that the disease affects only children and gradually devastates its victims through debilitating seizures, stunted growth, wasted limbs, mental disabilities and sometimes starvation.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


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KEYWORDS: africa; children; disease; medicine; noddingdisease; uganda

1 posted on 02/18/2012 12:10:17 PM PST by nuconvert
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To: nuconvert

if they stopped wearing those high definition sunglasses they would stop nodding.....


2 posted on 02/18/2012 12:15:33 PM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: nuconvert

” confounds experts, kills children “

Now, if they could come up with a disease that works the other way around - well, that would be something that would improve the world somewhat....


3 posted on 02/18/2012 12:15:45 PM PST by Uncle Ike (Rope is cheap, and there are lots of trees...)
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4 posted on 02/18/2012 12:19:52 PM PST by onyx (SUPPORT FREE REPUBLIC, DONATE MONTHLY. If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, let me know.)
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To: nuconvert

As we now live a post-racial world, I would wager that the cause of the illness is to be found in the rejection of colonialism and the imposition of self-rule.


5 posted on 02/18/2012 12:20:59 PM PST by MrBambaLaMamba (This Message Contains Privileged Attorney-Client Communications)
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6 posted on 02/18/2012 12:26:20 PM PST by null and void (Day 1124 of America's ObamaVacation from reality [Heroes aren't made, Frank, they're cornered...])
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To: AdmSmith

pong


7 posted on 02/18/2012 12:47:28 PM PST by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: nuconvert

Nodding in unison with liberals has killed millions of babies. In the womb.


8 posted on 02/18/2012 1:00:54 PM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree (How bad would an Obama II administration be, without the constraints of re-election?)
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To: nuconvert

Seems to have many similar symptoms to Rhett’s disease.


9 posted on 02/18/2012 1:25:37 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: MrBambaLaMamba

“As we now live a post-racial world, I would wager that the cause of the illness is to be found in the rejection of colonialism and the imposition of self-rule.”

So perverse is mankind that every nationality prefers to be misgoverned by its own people than to be well governed by another—Gen. Sir Charles Napier


10 posted on 02/18/2012 1:35:40 PM PST by Stormdog (A rifle transforms one from subject to Citizen)
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To: nuconvert

1) Lack of food?

2) It’s Bush’s fault.


11 posted on 02/18/2012 1:43:06 PM PST by alpo
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To: nuconvert

Sounds like liberalism.


12 posted on 02/18/2012 1:44:41 PM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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To: nuconvert

Sounds like Frankenfoods run amok.


13 posted on 02/18/2012 2:56:24 PM PST by aimhigh
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To: Vaquero

I love reading the humor on these happy threads.......conservatives at their best.


14 posted on 02/18/2012 4:06:25 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (The only solution to this primary is a shoot out! Last person standing picks the candidate)
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To: Vaquero

Correction: Christian conservatives at their best.....


15 posted on 02/18/2012 4:08:46 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (The only solution to this primary is a shoot out! Last person standing picks the candidate)
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To: Hot Tabasco

Apparently dying children are hilarious as long as they are not you own.


16 posted on 02/18/2012 5:40:34 PM PST by turn_to
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