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Carlos Chagas, age 4. Chagas was the son of José Justiniano das Chagas, a coffee farmer at Juiz de Fora in Minas Gerais, and Mariana Cândida Chagas (née Ribeiro de Castro), both of Portuguese descent. [2] His birth place is also recorded as Oliveira, his mother's hometown, [3] where the family spent half of their times. He was the eldest of ...
In the 1940s fisherman Henrique Penna from the Rockefeller Foundation in Rio de Janeiro reported that he had discovered cases of leishmaniasis in Brazil's countryside. [1] The disease had not been previously detected in Brazil, and as a response, Carlos Chagas of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute organized a commission leishmaniasis to be headed by his son Evandro Chagas.
Carlos Chagas Filho (September 10, 1910 – February 16, 2000) was a Brazilian physician, biologist and scientist active in the field of neuroscience. He was internationally renowned for his investigations on the neural mechanisms underlying the phenomenon of electrogenesis by the electroplaques of electric fishes .
[36] [45] Chagas disease results in the loss of over 800,000 disability-adjusted life years each year. [2] The endemic area of Chagas disease stretches from the southern United States to northern Chile and Argentina, with Bolivia (6.1%), Argentina (3.6%), and Paraguay (2.1%) exhibiting the highest prevalence of the disease. [2]
Chagas is a potentially fatal neglected disease that affects between 8 and 13 million people worldwide. DNDi 's Time to Treat campaign is pushing for increased political interest in new treatments for Chagas disease, increased public awareness of the disease and treatment limitations and increased public and private investment in R&D.
The Carlos III Health Institute (Spanish: Instituto de Salud Carlos III; ISCIII) is a Spanish public health research institute, [1] legally constituted as a public research agency (organismo público de investigación), a type of quasi-autonomous entity under Spanish law.
The creation of the institute was a proposal of Carlos Malbrán, for whom it owes the name, after an epidemic of yellow fever in Buenos Aires in 1916. The 2000 pesos Argentinian banknote issued in 2023 show the headquarters of Malbran Institute in the neighborhood of Barracas, Buenos Aires , making tribute of the Argentine public health system ...
Helena Maria de Freitas Chagas (born 13 October 1961) is a Brazilian journalist. The daughter of political journalist Carlos Chagas, she served as Secretary of Social Communication for the Presidency of Brazil from 2011 to 2014. Today, she is a communication consultant and sporadically writes for the Jornal O Globo's Blog do Noblat.