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Noun
(pathology) Any of several diseases of which lethargy is a major symptom:
especially, African sleeping sickness, an endemic infectiousdisease 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
Also, animal trypanosomiasis, also known as nagana or animal African trypanosomiasis
eastern equine encephalitis virus, a zoonoticalphavirus and arbovirus present in North, Central and South America and the Caribbean
