Photo: Mads Nissen
Colombia
Tame, Arauca region – April 2010
Father and son at indigenous community of Genareros in the outskirts of Tame, the capital of Arauca region. This was the first community to receive Chagas treatment. Out of 97 blood samples taken from children between nine months and 18 years old, 11 were found to have the disease.
Chagas disease is endemic in most Latin American countries. It is caused by the trypanosoma cruzi parasite and transmitted mainly by the ‘kissing bug’, a blood-sucking insect common in rural areas and city outskirts where people live in adobe houses made of clay and straw.
31. May 2010, 04:55
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