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• n  an encephalitis that was epidemic between 1915 and 1926; symptoms include paralysis of the extrinsic eye muscle and extreme muscular weakness

• sleepy sickness
• epidemic encephalitis
• lethargic encephalitis
• encephalitis lethargica

News & Articles

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• Blocking the active site of thiolase
  Scientists have shown the way to new directions in drug development against African sleeping sickness and other tropical parasitic infections.
  Nov. 7, 2013 - Science Daily
• New treatment for African sleeping sickness comes closer
  Researchers have identified drugs targeting infections of the parasite Trypanosoma brucei and are thereby well on the way to find a cure against African sleeping sickness.
  Nov. 6, 2013 - Science Daily