Sentence examples for sickness epidemic from inspiring English sources

First, it investigates the life and times of Audrey Death, a victim of the 1918 sleeping sickness epidemic.

Umbrella, the story of a victim of the sleeping sickness epidemic at the end of the first world war, is a 400-page book without paragraphs or breaks or chapter divisions.

In the early 1980s, Dr. Pépin was a young doctor fighting a sleeping sickness epidemic at a hospital in Nioki, in what was formerly the Belgian Congo, then Zaire, and is now the Democratic Republic of Congo.

She was immediately installed as favourite to take the prize by bookies, with Will Self's Umbrella, in which a maverick psychiatrist attempts to wake victims of the encephalitis lethargica sleeping sickness epidemic at the end of the first world war, coming in second.

The town of Omugo in northwest Uganda, a strip of crumbly red clay stores and thatched mud houses that resemble chocolates in straw hats, is at the center of the sleeping sickness epidemic that goes deep into both war-torn Congo and war-torn Sudan.

Umbrella investigates the lives and inner worlds of a World War I munitions worker who falls victim to the 1918 sleeping sickness epidemic, her two brothers one a soldier, one a war office civil servant and the psychiatrist who briefly restores her to lucidity in 1971 with a dose of L-dopa.

In the wild, temperatures can drop significantly during the night in southern Africa [18] and sleeping sickness epidemics have been linked to seasonal temperature periodicity [19].

In the 20th century, three major sleeping sickness epidemics have afflicted the Africa.

By G. F. T. Ryall The New Yorker, June 2 , 1945P. 40 Trainers are experimenting with penicillin to check the coughing-sickness epidemic among their horses.

The New Yorker, June 2 , 1945P. 40 Trainers are experimenting with penicillin to check the coughing-sickness epidemic among their horses.

Cromwell lost his wife and daughters probably to "sweating sickness," an epidemic disease of unknown cause that struck England six times once in 1485 and five times in the 16th century.