Here's medical curiosity combining history, mystery and riveting storytelling. In a light, excessible, engaging writing style Crosby relates the vexing appearance during World War I of encephalitis lethargic(sleeping sickness) through the stories of patients, doctors and public health servants swept up in an epidemic that affected as many as five million people worldwide in little over a decade.

posted Jun 1, 2010 at 3:51PM

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