Chagas Disease: Chagas Disease, Tropical Insect-Borne Illness, May Be 'New HIV/AIDS Of The ...

Named after the Brazilian doctor who discovered it in 1909, Chagas disease is a potentially deadly illness spread by blood-sucking insects including Triatomids most commonly known as 'kissing bugs.' Like AIDS, the illness isIn 1998, Mateo first tested her technology in Bolivia in an effort to combat not malaria or dengue but Chagas disease, a parasitic disease that's spread through a bloodsucking insect known as vinchucas, AKA the Mexican bedbug.Today's question: With seven

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