American Trypanosomiasis
Chagas sickness, otherwise called American trypanosomiasis, is a possibly dangerous disease brought about by the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi (T. cruzi).Around 6 million to 7 million individuals overall are assessed to be contaminated with Trypansoma cruzi, the parasite that causes Chagas sickness. Chagas
infection is found principally in endemic territories of 21 mainland Latin American countries1, where it has been for the most part transmitted to people by contact with dung or pee of triatomine bugs (vector-borne), known as 'kissing bugs', among numerous other famous names, contingent upon the topographical region. Chagas infection is named after Carlos Ribeiro Justiniano Chagas, a Brazilian doctor and specialist who found the ailment in 1909. In May 2019, following up on choice of the 72 World
Health Assembly, the World Chagas Disease Day was set up to be commended on 14 April (the date of the year 1909 when Carlos Chagas analyzed the primary human instance of the malady, a two-year old young lady called Berenice).
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