Chagas Disease

Kissing bug' disease from Latin America that silently damages the heart over years. Trypanosoma cruzi causing acute myocarditis progressing to chronic cardiomyopathy decades later.

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The parasites have an extraordinary ability to hide in plain sight. T. cruzi can remain dormant in cardiac muscle cells for decades, occasionally emerging to cause arrhythmias, heart failure, or sudden cardiac death - often the first sign that someone was infected years earlier.

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