sleeping sickness
Example Sentences
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It has been used to treat West African sleeping sickness, a chronic illness spread by the tsetse fly.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 29, 2026
By contrast, something like sleeping sickness is spread through a fly, the tsetse fly.
From Salon ● May 8, 2025
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 was known how the APOL1 protein protected against sleeping sickness — it punched holes in the disease-causing trypanosomes, making them swell with fluid and burst.
From New York Times ● May 17, 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
