Sleeping sickness may refer to:
- African trypanosomiasis, a parasitic disease of people and animals
- Animal trypanosomiasis, also known as nagana or animal African trypanosomiasis
- Eastern equine encephalitis virus, a zoonotic alphavirus and arbovirus present in North, Central and South America and the Caribbean
- Encephalitis lethargica, a form of encephalitis that swept the world in the 1920s
- Fatigue (medical), any one of several other medical conditions that cause lethargy
- Sleeping Sickness (film), a 2011 German film
Read more about Sleeping Sickness: Music
Famous quotes containing the words sleeping and/or sickness:
“What we have found in this country, and maybe we’re more aware of it now, is one problem that we’ve had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.
I am my brother’s keeper, and he’s sleeping pretty rough these days.”
—Derek, Archbishop Worlock (b. 1920)
“So long as a person who has made mistakes ... honestly and sincerely wishes to be cured and to mend his ways, we should welcome him and cure his sickness so that he can become a good comrade. We can never succeed if we just let ourselves go and lash at him.”
—Mao Zedong (1893–1976)