Medical Press reports: Assessing the epidemiological situation of Chagas disease among German citizens of Bolivian origin The pathogen: The unicellular protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, surrounded by red blood cells. Source: Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, LMU Medical Center. How does one combat a tropical disease when most of those infected are unaware that they…
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Bolivia: Doctors Without Borders Ends Chagas Operations, Urges Ministry of Health to Take Over Comprehensive Care in Rural Areas
Relief Web reports from Médecins Sans Frontières: Bolivia: Doctors Without Borders Ends Chagas Operations, Urges Ministry of Health to Take Over Comprehensive Care in Rural Areas NEW YORK, DECEMBER 20, 2016—After 14 years of Chagas diagnoses, treatment and prevention efforts in Bolivia, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) ended its Chagas…
Bolivia: MSF develops an information system for exterminating the bugs that transmit Chagas
Medecins Sans Fromtieres (MSF) report: Bolivia: MSF develops an information system for exterminating the bugs that transmit Chagas From this year, MSF is launching the central information system called eMOCHA in three municipalities within Narciso Campero Province in Bolivia. This system is a technological breakthrough that enables people to report the location of triatomine bugs or…
They presented a new drug against Chagas, was tested in Bolivia
J Mendez reports for El Deber: SCIENCE They presented a new drug against Chagas, was tested in Bolivia – Chagas is called the evil of poverty It’s called fexinidazole. The study was presented at a conference in Mexico. Bolivia’s 140 patients received six daily doses of the drug, which was recovered for treatments. Chagas disease,…
Cochabamba: World experts to discuss clinical advances for Chagas disease
Wilma Perez writes for La Razon, the Chagas disease may face new alternatives to overcome it: World experts discuss clinical advances for Chagas disease Event. Cochabamba is the symposium which ends the 19 National and international specialists gather since yesterday in Cochabamba to discuss, visualize and analyze the clinical treatments and medical research on Chagas…
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