Two South Sudanese pediatric patients brought to Turkey with "unknown disease"

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No indication of what it might be so... just something to watch.


Two South Sudanese pediatric patients were taken to Turkey to receive treatment for an undiagnosed disease.

08 February 2013

" In the scope of providing further medical treatment, a Turkish charity fund, Kimse Yok Mu, brought two pediatric patients to Turkey from South Sudan.

The charity team who headed to South Sudan to distribute relief aid came back to Turkey with 11-year-old Maguret Frade and 15-year-old Kenaladu Aizek Lapa who have been battling with an undiagnosed disease.

Orhan Erdogan, the abroad aid representative of the "Kimse Yok Mu", said that two children were taken to Turkey to provide them with necessary treatment and said, "Hoping to conclude their treatment in a couple of weeks time and take them back to South Sudan. Children look younger than their ages, after eating they fall asleep and sleep for hours."

He added that, so far they determined 2,800 children fighting with the illness."

 

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Re: Two South Sudanese pediatric patients brought to Turkey with "unknown disease"

That sounds like "nodding disease" or "nodding syndrome". We have had several threads about that illness, spread over much of East and Central Africa. For example, http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=120674

It remains unclear the cause of this disease, despite that fact that this has been ongoing for over 40 years.

 

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Re: Two South Sudanese pediatric patients brought to Turkey with "unknown disease"

Thanks alert.

You're right that it could be about nodding syndrome. I did think of that but a couple of things made me wonder if it might be something different. One is that it was characterized as an "unknown diagnosis". Nodding syndrome is pretty well recognized now, so it seems to me that the cases would be identified as that, if that is what they have.

The other thing that made me wonder is why take 2 kids out of Sudan back to Turkey? Further tests or some kind of different treatment or ?

Some times odd, little pieces of data like this catch my eye, especially when the info is incomplete or seems illogical.