Fatal Sleep by Peter Kennedy (2018, Trade Paperback)

The Fatal Sleep\nby Peter Kennedy\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Peter Kennedy\nTitle: The Fatal Sleep\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Biography: science, technology and medicine\nPublisher: Luath Press Ltd\nPublication year: 2019\nEdition: 3rd New edition\nISBN-13: 9781910745342\nISBN-10: 1910745340\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nThe bite of the tsetse fly - a burning sting into the skin - causes a descent into violent fever and aching pains. Severe bouts of insomnia are followed by mental deterioration, disruption of the nervous system, coma and ultimately death.\nSleeping sickness, also known as Human African trypanosomiasis, is one of Africa's major killers. It puts 60 million people at risk of infection, occurs in 36 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, and claims th.