Asleep

After reading Oliver Sack's "Awakenings" a few weeks ago, I was curious about other books on the sleeping sickness epidemic, and discovered this new one by Molly Caldwell Crosby. It wasn't quite as depressing as Sack's book, mostly because she wrote less about individual patients and more about the phenomenon as a whole. She also told of people who survived the sickness relatively unscathed. It just seems so sad that so many had to suffer, and that scientists and doctors still really don't have a clue as to what causes it or how to treat it if it comes back.