sleeping sickness

Noun

 * 1)  Any of several diseases of which lethargy is a major symptom:
 * 2) especially, African sleeping sickness, an endemic infectious disease of humans and animals in tropical Africa, caused by a parasitic trypanosome, transmitted by the tsetse fly and characterized by fever, severe headache, joint pains and lymph node swelling in the early stages, followed by a neurological phase of extreme weakness, sleepiness, and deep coma leading to death
 * 3) Also, animal trypanosomiasis, also known as nagana or animal African trypanosomiasis
 * 4) eastern equine encephalitis, caused by a zoonotic alphavirus and arbovirus present in North, Central and South America and the Caribbean
 * 5) encephalitis lethargica, a form of encephalitis, of unknown cause, that swept the world in the 1920s.

Synonyms

 * ,, sleepy distemper

Translations

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 * Esperanto: dormomalsano
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 * Polish: śpiączka afrykańska
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 * Russian: со́нная боле́знь
 * Spanish: enfermedad del sueño
 * Swahili: malale
 * Ukrainian: со́нна хворо́ба