After his baby half sister slips into a coma, a boy loses the ability to speak.
He slips into a coma and dies, and his parents conclude that he must have had an aneurysm.
Early symptoms include nausea, vomiting, fever and stiffness, but as the disease advances, the infected person develops rashes, has seizures and eventually slips into a coma.
Garland's novella, which includes original woodblock illustrations by his father, a political cartoonist, concerns a young man, Carl, who slips into a coma after being assaulted on the London Underground.
The 31-year-old is initially conscious, but slips into a coma and is taken to Holberton hospital, near St John's, where he is placed on a life-support machine.
She described the symptoms of a slow death by subdural hematoma: "headache, nausea, confusion," after which the victim grows "sleepy, somnolent and gradually slips into a coma, followed by respiratory depression".
When Hereward slips into a coma from which he seems unlikely to recover, Romola is irresistibly tempted to tamper with the ending of his final novel, the manuscript of which is now in her charge.
Because this is the truth of Comic Relief: lives are in the balance" And we watch as a tiny boy, riddled, ssays the voiceover, with malaria, slips into a coma and dies.
