被人遗忘的昏睡病

• 作 者: 文文
• 出 处: 科学大观园
• 发表日期: 2009年20期
• 关键词: 遗忘 真实存在 文学描写 想象力 昏睡病 时间 昏迷 产物 病人

有这样一种病,会让病人陷入长时间的昏睡中,然后进入昏迷状态,最后无声无息地死去。这不是文学描写中想象力进发的产物,这是一种真实存在的昏睡病。“昏睡病”是一种叫做锥虫的寄生虫感染造成的疾病,流行于中部非洲。14世纪,马里国王就染上了这种疾病,昏睡大约2年后死亡。几个世纪后,西方殖民者把贸易拓展到

There is such a disease, let the patient into a long period of lethargy, and then into a coma, and finally died silently. This is not the product of imagination in literary descriptions, it is a real sleeping sickness. Sleeping sickness is a disease caused by a parasite infection called trypanosomiasis, endemic to central Africa. In the 14th century, King Mali contracted the disease and died about 2 years later. Centuries later, Western colonists expanded their trade