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Chagas Disease Could Pose Threat Similar To Other Global Pandemics, Experts Warn
"Researchers are warning that the little-known Chagas disease could pose a threat similar to other global pandemics," Fox News reports, noting Chagas disease "is a parasitic illness that is most commonly transmitted by the so-called 'kissing bugs,' a subfamily of blood-sucking insects, through the parasite called Trypanosoma cruzi" (5/31). In an editorial published in PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases on Tuesday, a team of experts in tropical diseases from Baylor College of Medicine in Texas "likens some aspects of the disease to HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, and warns of a possible pandemic," GlobalPost writes (Wolfe, 5/31).
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