Little-known Chagas disease is a silent killer in Latin America, where it takes 10,000 lives a year, and more must be done to detect the condition early on, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said Thursday.
The disease is increasingly being detected outside the region, however, and PAHO says it "affects more than six million people in the world."
"Chagas is a disease that few know about, although it affects millions of people," Jarbas Barbosa, director of PAHO, said in the release. The insect that most commonly carries the parasite is known as the vinchuca, and lives in the mud, adobe, straw and palm thatch of rural homes. But blood transfusions and eating contaminated food can also lead to infection.
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