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SICKNESS. By sickness is understood any affection of the body which deprives it temporarily of the power to fulfill its usual functions.
2. Sickness is either such as affects the body generally, or only some parts of it. Of the former class, a fever is an example; of the latter, blindness. When a process has been issued against an individual for his arrest, the sheriff or other officer is authorized, after he has arrested him, if he be so dangerously sick, that to remove him would endanger his life or health, to let him remain where he found him, and to return the facts at large, or simply languidus. (q.v.)

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.

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Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), or sleeping sickness, is a tropical disease that affects sub-Saharan African countries.

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His nightmare began when he was in Burkina Faso in west Africa with a team of scientists for a study of the tsetse flies that transmit sleeping sickness.

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Belgium's deputy prime minister Alexander de Croo pledged 25 million euros ($26.81 million) through 2025 to eradicate African sleeping sickness.

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Sleeping sickness is caused by the Trypanosoma brucei parasite, which is spread by the bite of the tsetse fly.

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Clinical features, diagnosis, and treatment of human African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness).

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As the plot develops, ties appear among John Hobbes, the sleeping sickness, and a darker problem, which promises to surface more in future books.

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The strange sleeping sickness in the Kalachi village of Kazakhstan was first registered in March 2013.

Mystical sleeping sickness rampant in Kazakhstan

The outbreak of "sleeping sickness" was reported in Akmola region's Kalachi village, 3 have been hospitalized, the local authorities told Novosti-Kazakhstan.

"Sleeping sickness" outbreak reported in Kazakhstan's Akmola region, 3 hospitalized

Scientists have discovered this RNA "edit" in Trypanosoma brucei, a parasite that causes sleeping sickness in Africa and Chagas disease in Latin America.

Finding reveals "edits" in genetic information

The tsetse fly spreads the parasitic diseases human African trypanosomiasis, known as sleeping sickness, and Nagana that infect humans and animals respectively.

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Sicknesses covered include soil-transmitted helminth infections (such as hookworm infection), schistosomiasis (snail fever), tropical diseases that blind (such as river blindness and trachoma), mycobacterial infections, kinetoplastic infections (such as sleeping sickness and chagas disease), dengue, rabies, and much more.