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An illness that causes children to nod uncontrollably has baffled doctors for years. Now Robert Colebunders, a Professor of Infectious Diseases from Belgium, has discovered a link between ‘nodding syndrome’ – a type of epilepsy – and river blindness, which is spread by black flies.

Picture: Children in Uganda, some of whom have nodding syndrome, Credit: Getty Images