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sleeping sickness

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
sleeping sickness

▶noun

1 a tropical disease caused by parasitic protozoans (trypanosomes) transmitted by the bite of the tsetse fly, marked by extreme lethargy.

2 US term for sleepy sickness.

'sleeping sickness' also found in these Oxford entries:

trypanosomiasis - tsetse

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