Brazilian town has outbreak of Chagas disease
12:10, 12 January 2010
BRASILIA. January 12. KAZINFORM A Brazilian town has an outbreak of Chagas disease, the government of the northern province of Amazonas said Monday, Kazinform refers to Xinhua.
Twelve people, including four children, were infected in the municipality of Santa Isabel do Rio Negro after eating "acai" - a kind of food produced from palm tree, said Evandro Melo, a provincial official.
Melo said the cases were diagnosed on Jan. 4.
Chagas disease is a tropical parasitic condition transmitted by blood-sucking assassin bugs, Kazinform cites Xinhua. See www.chinaview.cn for full version.