Patients suffering from sleeping sickness, leish-maniasis, dengue, trachoma and many others are given, too often, archaic drugs, some highly toxic, some ineffective.
Friend's reference is to sleeping sickness (trypanosomiasis) not to sleepy sickness (encephalitis lethargica).
He was bitten by the glossina morsitans in the neck, the neck suddenly swelled up, he contracted sleeping sickness, and he is now dead.
The same thing applies with regard to sleeping sickness and malaria—it is sanitation which is required.
Tropical diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis and sleeping sickness claim millions of victims every year.
Sleeping sickness is easy to recognise in the second phase, but treatment then is far more difficult.
For once overcome this political sleeping sickness that seems to paralyse us in the face of disasters that together we have the power to prevent.
Presence or absence of sleeping sickness.
