sleepy sickness
sleepy sickness Popular term for a rare viral disease of the brain, encephalitis lethargica, characterized by headache and drowsiness progressing to coma. It occurs in epidemic and sporadic forms and, most notoriously, was the cause of an epidemic that followed World War I, leaving many helpless survivors.
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