Sleeping Sickness: The Terrifying Disease that Everyone Forgot
- Episode aired Nov 11, 2021
- 15m
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Coindident with the Spanish Flu was a second less deadly epidemic of encephalitis lethargica colloquially known as sleeping sickness. It is attributed with half a million deaths and a compar... Read allCoindident with the Spanish Flu was a second less deadly epidemic of encephalitis lethargica colloquially known as sleeping sickness. It is attributed with half a million deaths and a comparable number incapacitated but it suddenly ended before medical researchers could find that... Read allCoindident with the Spanish Flu was a second less deadly epidemic of encephalitis lethargica colloquially known as sleeping sickness. It is attributed with half a million deaths and a comparable number incapacitated but it suddenly ended before medical researchers could find that cause until a brief resurgence in 1993.