Chagas' disease
/ˈtʃɑːgəs/noun
mass noun
- a disease caused by trypanosomes transmitted by bloodsucking bugs, endemic in South America and causing damage to the heart and central nervous system恰加斯氏病（因吸血虫传播的锥体虫所导致, 损害心脏和中枢神经系统的南美洲地方疾病）。
词源
early 20th cent.: named after Carlos Chagas （1979-1934）， the Brazilian physician who first described it.