S7: 8:30-10:30 Chagas Disease

Lead: Dr. Norm Beatty

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Method: Interactive

Objectives:
 

Discussion will include an overview of Chagas disease, how diseases connect the global south and north, and how climate change is changing the distribution of vectors.

Opportunity to view specimens of reduviid bugs (kissing bugs) - the vector of Trypanosoma cruzi, the pathogen that causes Chagas disease.

 

Questions:

What is the concept of One Health? What is the potential for further pandemics and zoonotic diseases due to increased human animal and human-environmental interfaces? What, if anything, can be done to counteract this?

 

Link to powerpoint presentation:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1j1zRbFSkWydLizmfmx9b3SuskjQlfgrm/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=108198105988285894623&rtpof=true&sd=true

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Supplementary Materials:

 

1. Forsyth CJ, et al. Recommendations for Screening and Diagnosis of Chagas Disease in the United States. J Infect Dis. 2022 May 4;225(9):1601-1610. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiab513. PMID: 34623435; PMCID: PMC907134     https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34623435/

2. Beatty NL, Klotz SA. Autochthonous Chagas Disease in the United States: How Are People Getting Infected? Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2020 Sep;103(3):967-969. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.19-0733. PMID: 32602437; PMCID: PMC7470559.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7470559/

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