SLEEPING SICKNESS.
—*_—*-_.— . THE LONDON OUTBREAK (By Cfcble—Press Association—Copyright.) (Banter's Teiegx&ma.) LONDON, February 2. There have ueen twenty-one cases of sleeping sickness —encephalitis lethar* gicar-in a week in London. [The following message was received on Monday last: A sleepy sickness is puzzling the doctors, and shows signs of spreading in London. Fifty-live eases were recently reported. It conies on in the, form of & headache, followed by delirium, and in most cases is fatal. Those recovering wear a masklike expression. Two hundred and three cases were reported in Sweden. It i« not connected with the African disease, but is presumably associated with the hie* coughing influenza, and is mildly infectious. A microbe is supposed, to enter tiie nose and reach the brain.
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Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17062, 5 February 1921, Page 9
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