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Trypanosanomiasis is the protazoa that the tsetse fly infects the subject with that causes the "sleeping sickness". The symptoms of this is a very sick subject with an irratic sleep schedule, fevers, bloating, and headaches.There are lots more symptoms but you get the idea. So its called the sleeping sickness because of how it effects the subject sleeping...

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An insect which causes a disease called sleeping sickness?

the sleeping disease is transmited by the tse tse fly


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