# Out of context

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/out-of-context/610755>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 26, 2012, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/out-of-context/610755 "2012-01-26T18:24:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cryptic\_C62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Cryptic\_C62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cryptic_C62)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/out-of-context/610755/1 "2012-01-26T18:24:37Z")

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I saw an article titled “A partnership to cure sleeping sickness” on my school’s homepage and happened to skip down to this line:

“As its name implies, sleeping sickness occurs exclusively in sub-Saharan Africa”

Err… what? Is this related to some sort of racial stereotype…?

But then I looked at the previous paragraph and found that the full name of the disease is “African sleeping sickness”. Meep.