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The first symptoms begin after just a few nights without sleep, with shaking, sweating and overwhelming anxiety. Several weeks on, the insomniac is unsteady on his feet, wracked by fevers, and drifting in and out of delirium as the body's vital organs begin to fail. Finally, after months of agonising open-eyed deterioration, the victim falls into a state of exhaustion resembling a coma and mercifully dies.Chronic sleeplessness, or Fatal Familial Insomnia, is a rare, inherited affliction that has tormented one noble Venetian family since the eighteenth century, striking at random and only after the child rearing years are over, so that the deadly legacy is passed on like a dynastic curse. The cause of this sickness eluded the experts until the 1990's when it was identified as a rogue protein called a prion - the agent that is also responsible for Mad Cow Disease, 'scrapie' in sheep, and the fatal outbreak of uncontrollable laughter that decimated a tribe in Papua New Guinea. As .