sleeping sickness
Example Sentences
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By contrast, something like sleeping sickness is spread through a fly, the tsetse fly.
From Salon • May 8, 2025
In 2017, Naviaux and his team completed early clinical testing for suramin, the only drug approved in humans that can target ATP signaling and which is normally used to treat African sleeping sickness.
From Science Daily • May 10, 2024
With Death’s capture, millions are suddenly affected by a strange sleeping sickness: either unable to sleep or basically in a coma.
From The Verge • Aug. 5, 2022
It turns out that the variants rose to a high frequency among people in sub-Saharan Africa because they offer powerful protection against deadly African sleeping sickness, a disease caused by trypanosomes.
From New York Times • May 17, 2022
“John,” she murmured to herself, “John . . .” Then “My Ford,” she wondered, “have I given dais one its sleeping sickness injection, or haven’t I?”
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
