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  2. Chagas disease - Wikipedia

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    Blood transfusion was formerly the second-most common mode of transmission for Chagas disease. [35] T. cruzi can survive in refrigerated stored blood, and can survive freezing and thawing, allowing it to persist in whole blood, packed red blood cells, granulocytes, cryoprecipitate, and platelets. [35]

  3. Triatoma infestans - Wikipedia

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    Triatoma infestans, commonly called winchuka [1] or vinchuca [2] in Argentina, Bolivia, Uruguay and Chile, barbeiro in Brazil, chipo in Venezuela and also known as "kissing bug" or "barber bug" in English, is a blood-sucking bug (like virtually all the members of its subfamily Triatominae) and the most important vector of Trypanosoma cruzi which can lead to Chagas disease.

  4. Neglected tropical diseases - Wikipedia

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    Chagas disease can be prevented by avoiding insect bites through insecticide spraying, home improvement, bed nets, hygienic food, medical care, laboratory practices, and testing. [38] It can be diagnosed through a serological test, although the test is not very accurate. [18] Treatment is with medication, which may have severe side effects. [38]

  5. Triatominae - Wikipedia

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    Domestic and sylvatic species can carry the Chagas parasite to humans and wild mammals; birds are immune to the parasite. T. cruzi transmission is carried mainly from human to human by domestic kissing bugs; from the vertebrate to the bug by blood, and from the bug to the vertebrate by the insect's feces, and not by its saliva as occurs in most ...

  6. How to Avoid Cross-Contamination When Cooking Meat - AOL

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  7. Chagas: Time to Treat campaign - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Carlos Chagas - Wikipedia

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    Chagas named this new parasite Trypanosoma cruzi [9] in honor of Oswaldo Cruz and later that year as Schizotrypanum cruzi, [10] and then once again as Trypanosoma cruzi. [1] Chagas's initial suspicion that the parasite could infect human and other vertebrates was proven right: he soon found the parasites in the blood of a cat. [3]

  9. Trichinosis - Wikipedia

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    The best way to prevent trichinosis is to fully cook meat. [3] A food thermometer can verify that the temperature inside the meat is high enough. [3] Infection is typically treated with antiparasitic medication such as albendazole or mebendazole. [4] Rapid treatment may kill adult worms and thereby stop further worsening of symptoms. [4]

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