Chagas disease is a disease caused by Trypanosoma cruzi. Trypanosoma cruzi is related to the African sleeping sickness parasite. The parasite is spread by a bite from the reduvid bugs or blood transfusion with the parasite.. Chagas disease is a problem mainly in South America. The disease expresses itself in two phase: acute and chronic. Symptom of the acute phase include:
After the acute phase, the disease becomes latent and may revive after years. It then enters the chronic phase, whose symptoms include:
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Work Cited PubMed Health. Chagas disease, American trypanosomiasis.<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0002348/ |