A SciDev.Net article provides an update on Chagas disease and discusses the neglect of the condition, which was first identified 100 years ago - see TropIKA.net News.

The need for new, more effective treatments is highlighted in the SciDev.Net article. Joseli Lannes, researcher at the Oswaldo Cruz Institute at Fiocruz in Brazil, and a coordinator of the Institute’s Integrated Programme on Chagas Disease, says that new species of insects are now starting to spread the disease. Chagas, the article aruges, is no longer simply a bug-transmitted disease endemic to rural areas of Latin America, but an urban, globalised disease with new clinical presentations.