Mystery disease devastates northern Uganda

PADER DISTRICT, Uganda (Reuters) – Most mornings, Michael Odongkara takes his daughter Nancy Lamwaka outside and ties her ankle to a mango tree. It’s not something he likes to do. But the disease that gives the 12-year-old violent seizures has so diminished her mental capacity that she no longer talks and often wanders off. Once, she was lost in the bush for three days. “It hurts me so much to tie my own daughter to a tree … but because I want to save her life, I am forced to. …