Chagas Disease

CHAGAS DISEASE

Chagas disease (also known as Chagas disease) is a disease caused by the parasite T. cruzi and is characterized by a wide range of clinical manifestations from asymptomatic carriage to severe myocarditis, acute disseminated malaria, or death.

This disease was discovered by the American parasitologist Carlos Escobar Chugs in the mid-19th century. In 1895, he described cases of sleeping sickness in patients who had traveled to South America. The researcher himself died in the 1920s, probably from a disease caused by this parasite.