Chagas: a growing silent disease with worrying data in Argentina
After more than one century of its discovery, Chagas disease is still an endemic suffering in the region. We spoke with the biologist Diego Weinberg, member of Fundación Mundo Sano, an organization devoted to improve the reality of people affected by neglected...
El País- Silvia Gold, a heroine against Chagas
If superheroes use their powers to save the world from fearful enemies, Silvia Gold (Buenos Aires, 1948) uses hers to give visibility to neglected diseases, those suffered by 1.6 billion people far away from Spain -they are limited to poorer countries, save for the...La Nación – Expectations to eliminate congenital Chagas over a decade
Every hour a baby is born with Chagas somewhere in the world, adding to some 9,000 per year. In Argentina, the country with the largest number of people infected by Trypanosoma cruzi, the number is around 1.400 per year or close to 4 per day. One every 6 hours. These...
Perfil – Campaign aiming to have not a single baby born with Chagas launched in Argentina
In Argentina, at least one and a half million people are infected with Chagas, a potentially life threatening disease caused by a parasite known as Trypanosoma cruzi. There are several contagion paths: the most frequent are conenose (kissing) bugs and blood...
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