Informative Speech On Chagas Disease

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Hi, I’m Eric Edmondson and I have Chagas disease. You probably don’t know what Chagas disease is so I’ll tell you. The Chagas disease is a protest caused disease from a parasite called Trypanosoma Cruzi which is spread through the kissing bug. It was discovered by Carlos Justiniano Ribeiro Chagas. He found chagas disease at the Oswaldo Cruz Institute in Rio de Janeiro. He discovered chagas disease first by finding trypanosomes in a Brazilian monkey. That led to the discovery of the possibly fatal protozoan parasite Trypanosoma Cruzi. This disease is primarily found in the Americas, focused in the rural or Latin Americas where poverty is wide spread. I first realized I had chagas disease after a few weeks of being a host to this parasite. This