World Chagas disease day

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To focus attention on the threat of Chagas disease, the World Health Organisation started celebrating 14 April as World Chagas Disease Day from the year 2020.

• Chagas disease or American trypanosomiasis is a potentially life-threatening disease caused by the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi.

• It is also known as "silent disease". It is mainly found in poor people who have less access to health facilities or are deprived of it.

• Theme of 2022: Finding and reporting every case to defeat Chagas disease.

• Initially this disease was recorded in Latin America but now it is found in many parts of the world.

Important facts :

WHO established: 7 April 1948;

WHO Headquarters: Geneva, Switzerland;

Director-General of WHO: Tadros Adarnom Ghebreyesus (Ethiopia);