Chagas Disease is an infection caused by the parasite Trypanosoma Cruzi. It is a member of the same genus as the infectious agent of the African Sleeping sickness, but the clinical manifestations, geographical distribution, life cycle and insect vector are very different. Chagas Disease was named after a Brazilian physician and infectologist Carlos Chagas, who […]
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The once notorious night-time terror, the bed bug, has some competition to contend with in the minds of those climbing into bed tonight: the Triatomine bug better known as the “kissing” bug. Although endemic only in Central and South America, a map from the Centers of Disease Control show occurrences in 25 states in the […]