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 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
"What if I worked on her organs? Made them youthful again. Perhaps there's some failing within her body that keeps Charlotte in this sleeping sickness."
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
