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You are watching Chagas Season 2 Episode 1

16 million people in South America carry the parasite that causes Chagas Disease - a parasite that will kill a quarter of them in middle age. The parasite is transmitted by the so-called kissing bug - in Bolivia they call it Vinchuca - which bites at night, sucking blood while its victims sleep. We travel from the mountain villages of Bolivia to the laboratories of San Francisco in search of a safe, effective cure.

• On site 09 September 2008
• Air date 29 June 2005
• Produced for BBC World

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Keywords

• Health,
• Latin America,
• Infectious Disease,
• Institute for OneWorld Health,
• American Trypanosomiasis,
• Kissing Bug