Q: Is there a medication to prevent trypanosomiasis?
A: Unfortunately Chagas disease poses a huge challenge in the absence of a proven drug or a vaccine to prevent the disease.
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Q: When do the symptoms of Chagas disease manifest in victims?
A: Once the infection sets in, the symptoms manifest within a few days. Sometimes they show up after a few weeks of the infection. Yet in some others, it does not develop until the chronic stage of infection which is after 10 -40 years after the initial onset of infection.
Q: What is the rate of incidence of Chagas disease?
A: It is estimated that globally, almost 16 to 18 million people get infected with Chagas disease, of which about 50,000 succumb to the infection annually.
Q: Once infected with trypanosomiasis will a person develop immunity against it?
A: No one is immune from trypanosomiasis. Even if a person has the disease once he can get re-infected.
