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Article: African sleeping sickness.(SLEEP MEDICINE)
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- FOCUS: Journal for Respiratory Care & Sleep Medicine
- Article date:
- September 1, 2008
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During my recent trip to Africa, two of my personal goals were to learn about the state of sleep medicine in Tanzania and see firsthand African sleeping sickness. Sleep centers are non-existent, but Tanzania seems to be an endemic area for sleeping sickness.
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Sleeping sickness is a disease that one studies during medical school and sleep medicine fellowship as interesting trivia or a "zebra" to be asked during one's board certification exam. I must confess that my narcissistic delusional paranoia (not sure if this is a DSM-IV diagnosis but it is a real disorder) has me believe that my destiny includes an ironic death-the sleep ...