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£500,000 to find a safe cure for sleeping sickness

Sleeping sickness is a bizarre and tortuous disease that has puzzled Scottish doctors for more than 200 years. Even the common cure can be deadly and contains arsenic.

Sleeping sickness is a bizarre and tortuous disease that has puzzled Scottish doctors for more than 200 years. Even the common cure can be deadly and contains arsenic.