GULU, Uganda — Over two years, from 2015 to 2017, Castro Odur, 68, lost three of his five children to Nodding syndrome. This mysterious ailment has plagued villages in rural northern Uganda since early 2000. “There is nothing worse than losing three children in a row to the same condition because you are unable to afford medical care for them,” Oduor, a farmer […]

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