Though limited in its spread, nodding syndrome is devastating to the tiny communities that are affected. As the land burned, nodding syndrome developed amid the nearly 2 million people forced into crowded government-run camps. Many scientists, and the Ugandan government, believe nodding syndrome may be connected to parasitic worms spread by the black fly. Locals have noted that river blindness was a problem long before nodding syndrome was identified, across a much wider geographic area. Others see the nodding children as spirits of those never buried in the massacres of the war.

Source: Huffington Post February 06, 2018 10:07 UTC