sleeping sickness

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.

In 2017, Naviaux and his team completed early clinical testing for suramin, the only drug approved in humans that can target ATP signaling and which is normally used to treat African sleeping sickness.

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

As it was, the poor animals had to be given injections to treat animal sleeping sickness every few weeks.

With Death’s capture, millions are suddenly affected by a strange sleeping sickness: either unable to sleep or basically in a coma.