Is Chagas a New AIDS?

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Chagas disease, a parasitic infection widespread to humans by insects, is not a new HIV/AIDS of a Americas, according to spreading illness experts who called a comparison “unrealistic” and “unfortunate.”
Responding to an editorial posted Monday in PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases and the media attention that followed, Rick Tarleton, boss of the Chagas Disease Foundation, said a diseases have small in common over disproportionately inspiring bad people.
“I consider it’s an hapless comparison,” pronounced Tarleton, a distinguished investigate professor at a University of Georgia study Chagas disease. “There are stigmas trustworthy to HIV/AIDS that themselves are inappropriate, though it would be even some-more inapt to request them to something like Chagas disease.”
About 300,000 people in a U.S. have Chagas disease, an infection transmitted to humans by blood-sucking insects. But roughly all of them became putrescent before entrance to a U.S. from Mexico...