Chagas' disease
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Chagas' disease /ˈtʃɑːgəsɪz/
▶noun a disease caused by a trypanosome transmitted by bloodsucking bugs, endemic in Central and South America and causing damage to the heart and central nervous system.
– origin early 20th cent.: named after the Brazilian physician Carlos Chagas.
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