Severe cramps syndrome is Killing Children Uganda

Severe cramps syndrome is Killing Children Uganda

 

Kampala, Uganda, thousands of children in Uganda and Southern Sudan have uncontrolled seizures can even shut down due to a mysterious syndrome that is still not known. What's syndrome?
Mysterious syndrome called Nodding Syndrome which exclusively affects children. This syndrome causes uncontrollable seizures, which eventually made the victims languish and die. Thousands of children in Uganda and South It is believed to have been affected by this syndrome.
This syndrome is actually first discovered in 2003. But after nearly a decade since it was first detected, almost no progress has been made to identify, treat or eradicate the disease.
Dr. Scott Dowell, the American doctor who has been involved in the global fight against bird flu, is now also helping the government of Uganda to fight Nodding Syndrome.
"It's frustrating because no known cause. I hope to get answers quickly when we started studying this disease in 2009," said Dr. Scott Dowell, of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, USA, as reported by BBC News , Wednesday (14/03/2012).
But the result is the opposite, like other neurological disorders, Nodding Syndrome remains a mystery. According to Dr Dowell, take a long time to be able to solve this mystery.
At first, CDC researchers suspect this condition might be due to psychogenic problems such as mass hysteria. But brain scans quickly confirmed that the researchers are dealing with a disease that causes brain atrophy measured.
WHO, UNICEF and the Ministry of Health Uganda is now engaged with each other to solve this problem. Dr Dowell says he can not speak for what happened before 2009, but he insists Nodding Syndrome would be a mystery to be solved CDC.
"We really want to get to the bottom (to find the cause and solution), because it had a huge impact on public health. It's very important for children and families affected. It is also interesting from a scientific standpoint," said Dr Dowell.
CDC has confirmed 194 cases, but have heard reports that there are thousands of children affected by this mysterious syndrome.
Unlike bird flu, Nodding Syndrome showed no indication can be transmitted from person to person. So researchers can not say it would be a threat to the whole world, as happened to bird flu.sources