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sleeping sicknessn.（名词）- An often fatal, endemic infectious disease of human beings and animals in tropical Africa, caused by either of two trypanosomes(Trypanosoma rhodesiense or T. gambiense) transmitted by the tsetse fly and characterized by fever, severe headache, and lymph node swelling in the early stages, followed by extreme weakness, sleepiness, and deep coma. Also called African sleeping sickness 昏睡症：发生于非洲热带人类和动物身上的一种致命性的、地方性传染病，由两种锥体虫（罗得西亚锥虫 和 冈比亚锥虫） 引起，由采蝇传播，发病特点为发热、极度头痛、早期有淋巴结肿大，而后极度虚弱、昏睡、深度昏迷 也作 African sleeping sickness
- See encephalitis lethargica 参见 encephalitis lethargica
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