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 herds diminished, thornbush shrubs flourished, providing a perfect home for the tsetse flies that carried sleeping sickness.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
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 wouldn’t be the sleeping sickness, do you think?”
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
