Nodding Syndrome May Be Only the Ears of the Hippo
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1 National Disease Control, Ministry of Health, Kampala, Uganda, 2 National Onchocerciasis Control Program, Ministry of Health, Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 3 Disease Prevention and Control Cluster, World Health Organization, Kampala, Uganda, 4 ROC Consulting, Palo Alto, California, United States of America, 5 Evolutionary Biology Group, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, 6 Institute of Integrative Ecology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, 7 Department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, 8 Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
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