Angola: 21 Positive Cases of Sleeping Sickness in Banga

Banga — Twenty - one positive cases of sleeping sickness were diagnosed in the last two weeks in the municipality of Banga, Cuanza Norte province, during the prospecting campaign held by the Provincial Department of the Institute of Combat and Control of Trypanosomiasis (Icct).

Angelino Francisco Correia, the supervisor of the campaign, said that 2,800 had been examined, and 21 cases were diagnosed, of which five were confirmed as sleeping sickness patients.

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