• World Chagas Disease Day is observed on April 14 to raise awareness around Chagas disease. It was first celebrated on April 14, 2020, and was named after...
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    Chagas disease, also known as American trypanosomiasis, is a tropical parasitic disease caused by Trypanosoma cruzi. It is spread mostly by insects in...
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    Week, World Patient Safety Day, World Tuberculosis Day, World Chagas Disease Day, World No Tobacco Day, World Hepatitis Day and World AIDS Day. According...
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    World Chagas Disease Day, World Tuberculosis Day, World Immunization Week, World Patient Safety Day, World Malaria Day, World No Tobacco Day, World Hepatitis...
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    Carlos Justiniano Ribeiro Chagas, or Carlos Chagas (Portuguese: [ˈkaʁluz ʒustʃĩniˈɐ̃nu ʁiˈbejɾu ˈʃaɡɐs]; July 9, 1879 – November 8, 1934), was a Brazilian...
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    World Malaria Day, World No Tobacco Day, World AIDS Day, World Blood Donor Day, World Chagas Disease Day, World Patient Safety Day, World Antimicrobial...
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    Health Day, World Chagas Disease Day, World Blood Donor Day, World Antimicrobial Awareness Week, World Immunization Week, World Malaria Day, World No Tobacco...
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    Day, World Chagas Disease Day, World Blood Donor Day, World Malaria Day, World Immunization Week, World Tuberculosis Day, World No Tobacco Day, World Patient...
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    Hepatitis Day, World Antimicrobial Awareness Week, World Patient Safety Day and World Chagas Disease Day. As of 2020[update], AIDS has killed between 27...
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    Tuberculosis Day, World Health Day, World Chagas Disease Day, World Malaria Day, World Immunization Week, World No Tobacco Day, World Blood Donor Day, World Hepatitis...
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    Tobacco Day, World Tuberculosis Day, World Malaria Day, World Patient Safety Day, World Hepatitis Day, World Antimicrobial Awareness Week, World Chagas Disease...
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    Clinic - Mayo Clinic". Mayo Clinic. "CDC - Chagas Disease - General Information". 13 April 2022. "Chagas disease". "Thripidae - an overview | ScienceDirect...
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    where Chagas disease occurs (from the southern United States to northern Argentina), all triatomine species are potential vectors of the Chagas disease parasite...
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    March 2014. "Chagas disease (American trypanosomiasis)". Archived from the original on 13 March 2014. Retrieved 12 March 2014. "World Health Day 2014: small...
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  • Patients Rights Day[citation needed] World Chagas Disease Day World Malaria Day Testicular Cancer Awareness Month World Immunization Week European Cancer...
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    neglected diseases, notably leishmaniasis, sleeping sickness (human African trypanosomiasis, HAT), Chagas disease, malaria, filarial diseases, mycetoma...
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  • doi:10.4103/0970-9290.49066. PMID 19336869. "Chagas disease (also known as American trypanosomiasis)". World Health Organization. 4 April 2024. Archived...
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    Benznidazole (category Chagas disease)
    antiparasitic medication used in the treatment of Chagas disease. While it is highly effective in early disease, the effectiveness decreases in those who have...
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    Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is any disease involving the heart or blood vessels. CVDs constitute a class of diseases that includes: coronary artery diseases (e.g...
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    recently much of continental Europe has been declared rabies-free. Chagas disease is caused by Trypanosoma cruzi and is mostly spread by Triatominae....
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  • trachoma; and to control schistosomiasis, soil-transmitted helminthiasis, Chagas disease, visceral leishmaniasis and river blindness by 2020. The original endorsers...
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  • Céstan, Louis Jean Chennais Chagas disease – Carlos Chagas Charcot disease – Jean-Martin Charcot Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease – Jean-Martin Charcot, Pierre...
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    agent of Chagas disease, is virulent to its triatomine vector Rhodnius prolixus in a temperature-dependent manner". PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases. 9 (3):...
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    Coronary artery disease (CAD), also called coronary heart disease (CHD), ischemic heart disease (IHD), myocardial ischemia, or simply heart disease, involves...
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    office on July 10, 2023. The Communicable Disease Center was founded July 1, 1946, as the successor to the World War II Malaria Control in War Areas program...
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  • leishmaniasis, Chagas disease, river blindness, mycetoma, and dengue fever. Effect Hope and Canadian Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases: The Canadian...
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  • Keshan disease is a congestive cardiomyopathy caused by a combination of dietary deficiency of selenium and the presence of a mutated strain of Coxsackievirus...
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    diseases they may carry. Examples of such preventable insect-borne diseases include malaria, dengue fever, yellow fever, zika virus, Chagas disease and...
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  • the following diseases: African trypanosomiasis Chagas disease Leishmaniasis Lymphatic filariasis Dracunculiasis ("Guinea worm disease") Onchocerciasis...
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