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单词	sleeping sickness
释义	sleeping sickness noun 1 : a serious disease that is prevalent in much of tropical Africa, is marked by fever, headache, lethargy, confusion, and sleep disturbances, and is caused by either of two trypanosomes (Trypanosoma brucei gambiense and T. b. rhodesiense) transmitted by tsetse flies 2 : any of various viral encephalitides or encephalomyelitides of which lethargy or somnolence is a prominent feature Example Sentences Recent Examples on the Web The story, set in Khon Kaen, follows Jen (Jenjira Pongpas Widner), a volunteer at a clinic where a group of soldiers have come down with a strange sleeping sickness. The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2022 The century-old suramin, currently used to treat African sleeping sickness and river blindness (onchocerciasis), has also gotten some traction as a potential Covid-19 treatment. Joshua Cohen, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2022 Disease-specific commentary expanded to address other conditions, such as sleeping sickness and smallpox. Jennifer Couzin-frankel, Science | AAAS, 13 July 2021 The chemical has been used as a drug to treat African sleeping sickness, a parasitic disease transmitted by the tsetse fly found only in sub-Saharan Africa. Miriam Fauzia, USA TODAY, 15 June 2021 Between 1917 and the late nineteen-twenties, about a million people worldwide came down with a mysterious sleeping sickness called encephalitis lethargica. Katherine S. Xue, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2021 Take, for example, African sleeping sickness, a deadly disease with frightening neuro-psychiatric symptoms. Nathalie Strub-wourgaft, STAT, 24 Nov. 2020 Native to tropical Africa, these big, biting flies spread the parasitic infection that causes African sleeping sickness, a disease that is 100 percent fatal without treatment, and the treatment itself is notoriously difficult. Bill Heavey, Field & Stream, 19 Oct. 2020 Thanks to new technologies and the work of national sleeping sickness programs, there are now fewer than 1,000 cases reported a year, down from more than 30,000 two decades ago. Nathalie Strub-wourgaft, STAT, 24 Nov. 2020 See More Word History First Known Use 1875, in the meaning defined at sense 1 Medical Definition sleeping sickness noun 1 : a serious disease that is prevalent in much of tropical Africa, is marked by fever, headache, protracted lethargy, confusion, sleep disturbances, tremors, and loss of weight, is caused by either of two trypanosomes (Trypanosoma brucei gambiense and T. b. rhodesiense), and is transmitted by tsetse flies called also African sleeping sickness 2 : any of various viral encephalitides or encephalomyelitides of which lethargy or somnolence is a prominent feature especially : equine encephalomyelitis
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