sleeping sickness
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In one striking case, a ground squirrel bone from Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, dated to about 1.8 million years ago, showed evidence of infection by the parasite that causes sleeping sickness in humans.
From Science Daily • Jan. 3, 2026
It's also known as "triple E" or sleeping sickness and gets part of its name from the fact that it infects horses as well as humans.
From Salon • Aug. 29, 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
Figure 15.13 Trypanosoma brucei is the causative agent of sleeping sickness in humans.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
The list of diseases and their insect carriers, or vectors, includes typhus and body lice, plague and rat fleas, African sleeping sickness and tsetse flies, various fevers and ticks, and innumerable others.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
