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Post by Forever Sunshine on May 29, 2012 21:25:23 GMT -5
Chagas disease may be the "AIDS of the Americas," according to an editorial in PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, a periodical to which you're now happy you don't subscribe. The South American parasite enlarges the heart or intestines in about a quarter of its victims, and can only be treated by a strong drug attack in the first three months. It is spread by blood-sucking insects and can be passed from mother to child. Approximately eight million people in Central and South America and 300,000 people in the U.S. have the disease. It isn't a new disease; it's been around long enough to have been suspected of killing Charles Darwin. now.msn.com/now/0529-chagas-aids.aspx
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