{"id":16124,"date":"2012-08-22T19:01:34","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T22:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=16124"},"modified":"2012-08-22T19:02:30","modified_gmt":"2012-08-22T22:02:30","slug":"fewer-deaths-from-chagas-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/fewer-deaths-from-chagas-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Fewer deaths from Chagas disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deaths from Chagas disease in Brazil are decreasing, although slowly. In the last decade, the statistics dropped from 4 people a year out of every 100 thousand to less than 3. It is estimated that 2 to 3 million people in the country are infected by the flagellate protozoan that causes the disease. The only region where the rate increased is the Northeast (<em>PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases<\/em>, February 2012). Alberto Ramos Jr., Jorg Heukelbach and their team from the Federal University of Cear\u00e1 evaluated 9 million death certificates recorded between 1999 and 2007. According to the study, the pattern of transmission has changed thanks to the eradication of the main carrier \u2013 the <em>Triatoma infestans<\/em> insect. To lower the rates further, an investment against the secondary carriers and transmission through contaminated food would be necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Proportion of deaths is decreasing","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[229],"coauthors":[93],"class_list":["post-16124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technoscience","tag-epidemiology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16124"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=16124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}