A sleeping storm. (sleeping sickness in Africa)

From: Discover | Date: August 1, 1998| Author: Zimmer, Carl | Copyright information

Sleeping sickness is a condition in which parasites called trypanosomes feed on human blood and invade the brain, causing the victim to slip into a coma and die. Mickey Richer is an American doctor that has gone to Africa to help protect the people from succumbing to this infliction.

Justin Kalesto doesn't want to wake up. A woman is calling his name, but he turns his head deeper into his pillow. He is 12 years old, and from Mangbangau, a village deep in remote southern Sudan. H...

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