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In a recent editorial published in PLoS Neglected Tropical Disease, experts from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston have highlighted the 'dangerous spread' of Chagas disease, the New York Times reported.
Being hailed by the researchers as "the new AIDS of the Americas," Chagas is caused by parasites that are transmitted to humans by insects that suck blood.The paper noted that nearly 8 million people contract the disease in the Americas, mostly in Bolivia, Mexico, Colombia and Central America. However, the New York Times reported that as many as 30,000 people living in the United States have the disease, most of them immigrants.The authors of the paper argued that the spread of Chagas throughout the Western hemisphere closely resembles the early spread of HIV. Just like AIDS, Chagas disease has a lengthy incubation period it is next to impossible to cure, the authors said.Also known as American trypanosomiasis – because the transmitted parasites are single-celled trypanosomes, Cha...A man has filed a lawsuit against LifeSouth Community Blood Centers in Alabama after he allegedly received HIV-infected blood during a coronary bypass – causing him ...
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First discovered in 1981, AIDS has taken the lives of over 25 million people, and the World Health Organization today classifies HIV as a global pandemic. While ther...
A US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel will decide this week whether to recommend for the first time that certain healthy but at-risk people take a d...
More people than ever are living with the AIDS virus but this is largely due to better access to drugs that keep HIV patients alive and well for many years, the Unit...
Despite recommendations that pregnant women have tests for certain sexually transmitted diseases, many may not be getting them, a new study suggests.Researchers foun...
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The number of kids treated in emergency rooms after swallowing batteries -- or lodging them in their noses and ears -- has almost doubled over the past 20 years, a n...
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Scientists, stymied for decades by the complexity of the human immunodeficiency virus, are making progress on several fronts in the search for a cure for HIV infecti...
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The Food and Drug Administration is considering approval of the first over-the-counter HIV test that would allow consumers to quickly test themselves for the virus a...
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Stroke victims are more likely to make a better recovery if they are given a new clot-busting drug, Scottish researchers said.More than 3,000 patients worldwide took...
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