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Sudan's luckless children, locked in land of nod

by Marc Lacey, The New York Times
Sept. 22, 2003

LUI, Sudan — The children of Lui scoop their beans and mush from plates laid out on the dirt, using only their tiny fingers, often aware that something bad is about to happen.

Their necks begin to swing forward and back. "Nodding disease," as the malady has been called, takes hold. "I don't feel good when I eat," said Malesh Reuben, a skinny 12-year-old who has been nodding this way for five years.

About 300 children in and around this jungle village in southern Sudan have the mysterious ailment. It typically strikes during or just after a meal. The neurological disorder has left epidemiologists baffled...

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Are you prepared for the possibility of living in the streets? Will you be able to feed your family? Would you be able to survive so you have a shot at bouncing back to middle class?

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