Doctors, researchers, and patient advocates say the U.S. could be doing far more to combat Chagas, which causes serious heart disease in an estimated 30% of infected people and can also lead to ...

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Chagas disease is primarily transmitted to humans through the feces of infected triatomine bugs, also known as kissing bugs. Chagas: The ''Silent And Silenced'' Disease. Image: @CDCGlobal/X.

In the Amazon basin, foodborne transmission is already the leading cause of acute Chagas disease. It has been described in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, and Venezuela.

Chagas disease is transmitted primarily through an insect called the 'kissing bug' which bites people around the mouth and then can pass along a parasite through people's mouth, nose or breaks in ...

Chagas disease, once thought to be confined to South and Central America, is now an emerging public health threat in the United States, making it more important than ever for local physicians to ...

Scientists have their eyes on Chagas disease and the 'kissing bugs' that help spread it. Chagas disease can lead to heart failure and damage to the esophagus and gastrointestinal tract. Roughly 20-30% ...

A free international seminar hosted by the San Diego State University School of Public Health will explore Chagas disease, a malady estimated to infect about 8 million people worldwide. Presented ...

Chagas disease infects more than 4 million dogs in the U.S. with almost 650,000 in Texas alone. But many people have never heard of it.

Doctors, researchers, and patient advocates say the U.S. could be doing far more to combat Chagas, which causes serious heart disease in an estimated 30% of infected people and can also lead to ...

Doctors, researchers, and patient advocates say the U.S. could be doing far more to combat Chagas, which causes serious heart disease in an estimated 30% of infected people and can also lead to ...