Some two million Argentines live with this endemic parasitic infection

An infection with which some two million Argentines live – a figure estimated due to lack of quality epidemiological records – is silenced, even though almost a third cause cardiac complications and, in the last decade, caused 7% of heart transplants in the country, according to figures released yesterday, which coincided with World Chagas Disease Day .Heart health is the most vulnerable target against infection by the Trypanosoma cruzi parasite in three out of 10 people who were exposed, mainly through mother-to-child transmission (congenital) or the bite of a kissing bug (vector transmission). Other routes are transfusions and transplants, but it is considered that in the country the vectorial and the congenital continue to be the most common.

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