Venezuela: Chagas outbreak affects 12, oral transmission suspected

An outbreak of the parasitic infection, Chagas disease, has sickened a dozen people of the same family in the La Macarena municipality Febres Cordero, Merida state, in the Andean region of Venezuela, according to a 2001.com report (computer translated). Denis Gomez, director of the Health Corporation (Corposalud) in Mi(C)rida said that they have been treated by ["]