Trypanosomiasis — Brazil
The Tocantins State Department of Health in Central Brazil has reported 14 confirmed cases of Chagas disease after a family consumed contaminated juice in Aparecida do Rio Negro, according to a Globo.com report [computer translated]. All the infected are from the same family and drank the juice of the bacaba, a type of palm tree from the Amazon. The farm where the juice was produced is in the rural area of Aparecida do Rio Negro. The entire region will go through a sanitary surveillance survey
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