How to Use sleeping sickness in a Sentence

sleeping sickness

noun

• The tsetse fly, which spreads sleeping sickness, nourishes its grub inside a bizarrely mammalian uterus and feeds it with a milklike fluid—one that’s laden with microbes.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2017
• Despite the side effects, DEET is still one of the best lines of defense against not just ants but mosquitoes, which transmit deadly diseases like dengue fever, malaria, and sleeping sickness.
  — Kyle Frischkorn, Smithsonian, 11 July 2017
• There are different theories for the appearance of sleeping sickness in East Africa.
  — Carey Baraka, Quartz Africa, 26 Apr. 2020
• 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
• In years past, African sleeping sickness was responsible for killing as many as half a million people every year by some estimates.
  — Bill Heavey, Field & Stream, 19 Oct. 2020
• Human sleeping sickness has existed in Africa for centuries.
  — Carey Baraka, Quartz Africa, 26 Apr. 2020
• Tsetse flies spread the parasitic infection that causes African sleeping sickness, a disease that is 100 percent fatal without treatment.
  — Bill Heavey, Field & Stream, 5 Aug. 2020
• And in 2020, the World Health Organization hopes to eliminate sleeping sickness, or African trypanosomiasis, as a public health problem.
  — Davide Castelvecchi, Scientific American, 30 Dec. 2019
• 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
• These crippling and even fatal diseases include African sleeping sickness, a brain-eating amoeba, hookworm, roundworms that infiltrate the lymphatic system, and malaria.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 4 July 2018
• 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
• Other blood-feeding insects — such as mosquitoes and ticks — spread a host of devastating diseases: malaria, sleeping sickness, Lyme, babesiosis, Zika, dengue, encephalitis and others.
  — James Gorman, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2019
• 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
• Disease-specific commentary expanded to address other conditions, such as sleeping sickness and smallpox.
  — Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, Science | AAAS, 13 July 2021
• Some can be downright dangerous, transmitting viruses (yellow fever, encephalitis, dengue fever, West Nile disease), bacteria (Lyme disease, typhus) or parasites (malaria, sleeping sickness).
  — Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024