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alphavirus
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negro lethargy
animal trypanosomiasis
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eastern equine encephalitis virus
african trypanosomiasis
arbovirus
encephalitis lethargica
african sleeping sickness
trypanosomiasis
fexinidazole
disease
eflornithine
melarsoprol
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Definitions:
Noun
sleeping sickness
sleepy sickness
epidemic encephalitis
lethargic encephalitis
encephalitis lethargica
Definition: an encephalitis that was epidemic between 1915 and 1926; symptoms include paralysis of the extrinsic eye muscle and extreme muscular weakness
Definition: Any of several diseases of which lethargy is a major symptom:
Definition: 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