In this episode we get into sleeping sickness and the disturbing situation Brittney Griner is in and possible ways to bring her home. In February of 2022 Brittney flew into Russia to play basketball during the WNBA offseason. She accidentally brought in less than a gram of cannabis oil she holds a prescription for in the US. Now she is sitting in a Russian prison on drug smuggling charges. 

 

Have you heard of the sleeping sickness aka encephalitis lethargica? Not many people have, but it killed half a million people in the first part of the 19th century! Learn all about this mysterious condition whose cause and cure are unknown. 

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