Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics Receives FDA Approval for First Blood-Screening...

PR Newswire;  December 13, 2006 ;     700+ words ......to screen blood donations for exposure to Chagas' disease -- a tropical...to screen blood donations for the presence...can cause Chagas' disease. Ortho-Clinical...screening blood donations for Chagas' disease has contributed...

Blood Donations in U.S. Testing Positive for Chagas' Disease

U.S. Newswire;  October 20, 2007 ;     700+ words ......test for Chagas' disease, some 241 blood donations in the United...known that Chagas' disease was present...positive blood donations, as well...accounting of blood donations testing positive...the AABB's Chagas' Disease Biovigilance...

Red Cross hopes to start testing blood supply for Chagas disease within a...

AP Worldstream;  December 6, 2003 ;     420 words ......hopes to start screening blood donations for Chagas disease, which is appearing in...thought to be infected with Chagas disease worldwide, causing...the 13 million annual blood donations in the United States range...immigrants. About two dozen blood tests for ...

NEW GLOBAL EFFORT TO ELIMINATE CHAGAS DISEASE

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  July 3, 2007 ;     700+ words ......release: A new effort to eliminate Chagas disease by 2010 will be launched tomorrow at...about the treatment and control of Chagas disease, and to coordinate global efforts towards...of the WHO Global Network to combat Chagas disease occurs in the broader context of the...

HEALTH: SUCCESS LOGGED IN FIGHT AGAINST LEPROSY AND CHAGAS DISEASE

Inter Press Service English News Wire;  January 29, 1998 ;     544 words ......in the fight against leprosy and Chagas disease that they may disappear early in...2000, while the elimination of Chagas disease is foreseen by 2010, according to WHO predictions. Chagas disease is spread through insect bites...

ARGENTINA: CHAGAS DISEASE - SCIENCE PROGRESSES BUT PREVENTION LAGS

Inter Press Service English News Wire;  July 13, 2005 ;     700+ words ......coming up with effective treatment for Chagas disease, a parasitic infection that threatens...researchers have demonstrated that Chagas disease can be cured in children under 14 and...pregnancy, delivery or breastfeeding. Chagas disease has three stages: acute infection...

ARTS-ARGENTINA: FIGHTING CHAGAS DISEASE, CAMERA IN HAND

Inter Press Service English News Wire;  August 30, 2005 ;     700+ words ......making a movie about the often-fatal Chagas disease turned him into an activist. "I met...paid to this problem," said Preve. Chagas disease affects an estimated 16 million to...film, with a doctor who specializes in Chagas disease as the central character, but this...

HEALTH-LATIN AMERICA: HOPE IN THE FIGHT AGAINST CHAGAS' DISEASE

Inter Press Service English News Wire;  August 24, 1996 ;     566 words ......that at last a cure for the deadly Chagas' disease may have been hit upon by a Venezuelan...developed a drug that can eliminate Chagas' disease -- a tropical American trypanosomiasis...the development of a cure for humans. Chagas' disease is caused by the parasite Trypanosoma...

Chagas disease: clinical overview and implications for nursing.(CNE...

MedSurg Nursing;  August 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......toward them. An example of this is Chagas disease, which is endemic to Mexico and...United States are infected with Chagas disease (Milei, Mautner, Storino, Sanchez...Hispanic population, emergence of Chagas disease is expected to become more of an...to encounter undiagnosed cases of ...

Abbott Laboratories and Corixa Enter Into Agreement for Chagas' Disease...

PR Newswire;  March 2, 2004 ;     700+ words ......Trypanosoma cruzi (T. cruzi). T. cruzi causes Chagas' disease, a chronic, potentially lethal infection...entered into between the two companies. Chagas' disease primarily affects the nervous system...protect the nation's blood supply against Chagas' disease, said Jim Koziarz, Ph.D., ...

Chagas Disease

The Washington Post;  August 16, 1996 ;     239 words ......have reported success in wiping out Chagas disease in laboratory mice, raising hopes for...with the deadly parasitic illness. Chagas disease afflicts 16 million to 18 million people...in the treatment of human long-term Chagas disease," they write. In the experiment on...

Practical remedy: Chagas disease.

The Economist (US);  November 9, 1991 ;     489 words ......a counsel of caution, not despair. Chagas disease, the bane of around 17m Latin American...calamity to curiosity in a decade. Chagas disease is caused by a parasite that has an...the intergovernmental Commission for Chagas Disease. The ICCD Will buy and distribute insecticides...

New Hope for Chagas Disease Treatment.

Ascribe Higher Education News Service;  March 31, 2005 ;     700+ words ......Md., March 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- Chagas disease, which is transmitted to humans by...for the long-term, chronic form of Chagas disease, which kills up to one-third of those...therapy in the management of chronic Chagas disease, Urbina and Basombrio write in their...

LATIN AMERICA-HEALTH: HEALTH OFFICIALS MOVE ON CHAGAS' DISEASE

Inter Press Service English News Wire;  January 14, 1997 ;     533 words ......carrier of the parasite that causes Chagas' disease which kills 43,000 people a year in...to kill the parasite in the blood. Chagas' disease was first identified in 1909 by Brazilian...four to five percent are infected with Chagas' disease," according to Dr Gabriel Schmunis...

Pathogens & People: Chagas: Disease rising with immigration numbers

Capital (Annapolis);  July 29, 2007 ;     700+ words ......in South and Central American with Chagas disease. They are mostly poor and mostly children...public health campaign to eliminate Chagas disease by the year 2010. The effort is being...against these disease-carrying bugs. Chagas disease was once an obscure, far off illness...