Chagas, a tropical disease spread
by insects, is causing some fresh concern following an
editorial—published earlier this week in a medical journal—that called
it "the new AIDS of the Americas."
More than 8 million people have
been infected by Chagas, most of them in Latin and Central America. But
more than 300,000 live in the United States.
The editorial, published by the
Public Library of Science's Neglected Tropical Diseases, said the spread
of the disease is reminiscent of the early years of HIV.
"There are a number of striking
similarities between people living with Chagas disease and people living
with HIV/AIDS," the authors wrote, "particularly for those with
HIV/AIDS who contracted the disease in the first two decades of the
HIV/AIDS epidemic."Read here.
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