NewsdeskNodding disease: mystery of southern Sudan
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2021, Journal of the Neurological SciencesCitation Excerpt :However, the cumulative incidence of epilepsy decreased from 675 to 87 per 100,000 persons per year (p = 0.024) and the number of new NS cases per year dropped from four in 2012 to zero in 2017 [44]. NS is a term that first appeared in 2003 to describe an atypical form of epilepsy in African children with head nodding as a signature sign at an early stage of the disease [51]. The disease can progress to other complications such as stunting, wasting, delayed sexual development, psychiatric illness, and eventually death [52–54].
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