Editorial: Nodding syndrome, infections and sexuality

Nodding syndrome: Nodding syndrome has indeed become a very disturbing disorder of children and young adults living in environs heavily infested with Oncocerca volvulus and compounded by extreme poverty and socioeconomic deprivation. Teams from Uganda and Tanzania have put together several articles and these have been published in this month’s African Health Sciences. In the first of these seminal papers, US and Tanzanian researchers describe the earliest recorded cases of Nodding syndrome from Tanzania, with special reference to the earliest reported dates of onset. They show that this syndrome has been in Tanzania for at least 80 years.