Chagas Disease: Disease and Insects Mosquitos

chagas disease: This week, we published the first comprehensive assessment of the vector-borne disease outbreak that is assailing the country, according to The Independent. Vector-borne diseases are those spread by insects mosquitos, sand flies, kissing bugs and others. Once recognised as a regional leader for public health and disease control, Venezuela's healthcare and health research infrastructure has fallen into a state of collapse, creating a severe humanitarian crisis and a major outbreak of infectious disease. The we is a global consortium of authors, many of whom are Venezuelan doctors and academics working in the country under exceptionally difficult conditions. Chagas disease is a silent killer. Others include Colombian, Brazilian and Ecuadorian academics who are witnessing the crisis unfold Venezuelan refugees on the streets of their cities, diseases malaria, Chagas disease, measles, diphtheria spreading through porous land borders, and regional disease outbreaks of unprecedented proportions.I first travelled to Venezuela in the early 2000s to study Chagas disease, a single-celled parasite spread by the kissing bug, a blood-sucking insect that infests the walls of adobe houses. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.