Just to get the little sleep I've been getting, I have spent years taking sleeping pills and all forms of herbs and vitamins. My sleep pattern was not only sub-optimal, it was broken and dangerous.

为了得到那一点可怜的睡眠时间，多年以来，我一直在服用安眠药、各式各样的草药和维他命。

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The World Health Organization estimates that between 50,000 and 70,000 people in sub-Saharan Africa are infected with sleeping sickness, which is spread by the tsetse fly.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05