Sleeping Sickness in Africa
A SINGULAR disease, called the sleeping sickness, which first appeared on the Congo, has since broken out in Uganda. There ten thousand deaths from this cause have been reported in the last thirteen months. A patient, when attacked, falls into a slumber from which it is difficult to arouse him, and he falls back into sleep until the end comes; for there are few, if any, who recover when attacked. The increase of this disease is causing great alarm in all parts of Africa, and the English government has sent a scientific commission to Africa to study the disease and seek a specific for its cure. It is now believed that it is caused by a parasite in the blood, which is disseminated by the mosquito.