Chagas -- Brazil
Health officials in Pará state in northern Brazil are concerned about the number of Chagas disease cases seen this year [2016] as 2 fatalities were reported recently in the city of Barcarena, according to G1 report (computer translated). Between January and September 2016, 127 cases of the disease were registered in Pará.
The State Department of Public Health attributes much of the Chagas to the consumption of açaí palm contaminated by the vector of the parasite, the kissing bug. "We
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