sleeping sickness

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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

The condition was colloquially known as "sleeping sickness," as those infected developed extreme fatigue, neurocognitive impairments, psychiatric illness, and movement disorders.

From Salon • Apr. 24, 2023

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

“Oh, true! That he didn’t die fifteen years ago of typhus or sleeping sickness or malaria or the combination. I’m sure his hygiene went to hell after Mother left him.”

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver