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July 29, 2018, 14:08 Asuncion, July 29 (Prensa Latina) Specialists from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) will visit Paraguay from Tuesday to August 2 to discuss the epidemiological situation This disease, called American trypanosomiasis, is caused by the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi and is potentially fatal because the body affects the heart and the digestive system, can remain decades in the body.
It is estimated that there are between 6 and 7 million infected people in the world.
The PAHO delegation will also monitor the vector of the disease to determine the size of its population. Transmission in the country, said the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MS-BS).
The purpose of the visit is to badyze the detailed information and conclude on re the epidemiological situation and the control reached by Paraguay, before the possibility of granting certification of the cutting of the home transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi.
The three-day work agenda includes presentations of reports and badysis of advances of the struggle. In addition, inspections are planned for indigenous communities settled in the departments of Presidente Hayes and Boquerón, and the presentation results of the mission to the MS-BS.
19659003] According to national media reports, in November 2016, the PAHO distinguished the Guarani nation for the fight against Chagas disease and, mainly, in areas belonging to the Paraguayan Chaco, after the interruption of the transmission of the home vector.
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