sleeping sickness

English

sleeping sickness (usually uncountable, plural sleeping sicknesses)

(pathology) Any of several diseases of which lethargy is a major symptom:
1. Especially, African sleeping sickness, an endemic infectious disease of humans and animals in tropical Africa, caused by a parasitic trypanosome.
2. Animal trypanosomiasis.
3. Eastern equine encephalitis, caused by a zoonotic alphavirus and arbovirus present in North, Central and South America and the Caribbean.
4. Encephalitis lethargica, a form of encephalitis, of unknown cause, that swept the world in the 1920s.

infectious disease