Angola: Sleeping sickness spreading, MSF says

Angola risks being ravaged by deadly sleeping sickness as hundreds of thousands of internally displaced people return home in peacetime, spreading the parasite that causes the disease, Médicins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned. The global medical-relief organisation said the scourge -- officially known as Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT) – was in danger of making a lethal comeback after being almost eradicated before Angola’s devastating 27-year civil war, which ended almost two years ago.