Encephalitis lethargica, a brain infection causing drowsiness and sometimes coma.
See also sleeping sickness
Example sentencesExamples
- He recognized these patients as survivors of the great pandemic of sleepy sickness that had swept the world from 1916 to 1927.
- It may result in sleepy sickness and will decrease colostrum/milk production.
- African sleepy sickness is still loose in some parts of Africa.
- The point was often made that good conditioned cows and ewes were more susceptible to metabolic problems (milk fever, sleepy sickness) induced by stress.
- Lieberman suggests that he caught encephalitis when in military hospital in 1918, the time of the worldwide ‘sleepy sickness ' epidemic.
- He recognized the patients as survivors of the 1916-1927 sleepy sickness pandemic.