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World Chagas Disease Day – April 14
April 16 , 2020
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- On April 14, 2020, the world community is to celebrate World Chagas Disease Day for the first time.
- The Chagas disease is also called “American trypanosomiasis”.
- The disease has been termed as silent and silenced disease.
- It progresses very slowly and mainly affects the people under poverty
- The disease mainly affects poor people in Latin America.
- It is prevalent in USA, Western Pacific, European and Canada.
- The Day is marked by the World Health Organization.
- It transmits through vectors such as T cruzi parasite.
- Also, it transmits through contact with urine or faeces of blood sucking bugs.
- The disease does not spread through human to human contact.
- However, it can spread through infected blood transfusion.
- The disease got its name from Dr Carlos Ribeiro Justiniano Chagas, who diagnosed the first patient with the disease in Brazil on April 14, 1909.
- It is classified as a neglected tropical disease (NTD), meaning it affects the low-income populations in developing countries across the globe.
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