Tens of millions of people in the Americas are affected by the condition, yet there are no effective treatments. Researchers at the University of Georgia have identified a potential treatment for Chagas disease, marking the first medicine with the potential to effectively and safely target the para
Tens of millions of people in the Americas are affected by the condition, yet there are no effective treatments.
“I’m very optimistic,” said Rick Tarleton, corresponding author of the study and a UGA Athletic Association Distinguished Professor in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. “I think it has a really strong chance of being a real solution, not just a stand-in for something that works better than the drugs we currently have.”T. cruziThe parasite causes flu-like symptoms including fever, headaches, and vomiting in almost all of its victims.
Over the past several decades, previous treatment candidates went straight from experimental infections in mice to human clinical trials, where they failed to cure the infection. The new drug’s efficacy in non-human primates bodes well for how it will perform in humans. The go-to medications used to treat Chagas aren’t terrible, Tarleton said, but they’re not ideal. They can pack some serious side effects and they’re not reliably effective, but they’re currently the only treatment option.
Tens of millions of people across the Americas are infected with the parasite that causes Chagas disease. But it doesn’t get much media attention.
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