Protozoa
An estimated 240,000–350,000 people in the United States carry Chagas disease, and about 30% will develop heart or gut damage from it.
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An estimated 240,000–350,000 people in the United States carry Chagas disease, and about 30% will develop heart or gut damage from it.
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In the Clinic review co-authored by the CDC's parasitic diseases branch. 240,000–350,000 infected in the US, mostly immigrants from endemic Latin America; transmission also by transfusion, transplant and vertically. ~30% develop cardiac or GI complications. The teaching point is that this is a US disease that is almost never screened for.
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