sleeping sickness

How To Use sleeping sickness In A Sentence

• He infected mice and rabbits with Trypanosoma gondii, the parasite responsible for the dreaded sleeping sickness, then injected the animals with chemical derivatives to determine if any of them could halt the infection. The Emperor of All Maladies
• Tsetse flies are carriers of trypanosomes - the parasites transmitted by their bites, which cause sleeping sickness in men and cattle.
• Other common diseases include schistosomiasis, sleeping sickness, poliomyelitis, tuberculosis, and pneumonia.
• A case of sleeping sickness studied by precise enumerative methods: Further observations. Parasite Rex
• The same is true of tsetse flies that bring sleeping sickness to animals.
• The mosquitoes and the tsetze flies have been, only recently, proved to be the causes, the carriers, of diseases -- malaria, yellow fever, and sleeping sickness -- which annually have killed hundreds of thousands of men, colonists as well as natives. More Science From an Easy Chair
• On the other hand, smallpox has been eradicated, sleeping sickness has become rare, and polio and leprosy are under control.
• Local officials in central-eastern Maniema Province said sleeping sickness, a fatal disease transmitted by the tsetse fly and formally known as trypanosomiasis, was on the rise with at least 120 new cases reported in 2001. ANC Daily News Briefing
• Around 300,000 people in Africa are thought to have sleeping sickness, also known as African trypanosomiasis which is fatal unless treated. ANC Daily News Briefing
• One of the worst scourges of Africa and one that is to-day attracting world-wide attention is the disease known as trypanosomiasis, the terminal phase of which is sleeping sickness, one of the most ghastly diseases that we know. Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases