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. 2016 Jul 8;2016(7):CD009077. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD009077.pub3

2. Epidemiology of infected immigrants from Latin America endemic countries to the world.

Destination 
 country Year Infected Immigrants from Latin American endemic countries Immigrants with chronic Chagas disease
Australia 2006 3.8% of 80,522 Not described.
Canada 2006 3.5% of 156,960 Not described.
Japan 2007 80,912 immigrants from Brazil, 15,281 from Peru, and 19,413 from other South American countries whose country of origin was not identified.
Information about infected people was not supplied.
Not described.
Europe (15 countries excluding Spain) 2005 2.9% of 483,074 legal Latin American immigrants. Not described.
Spain 2007 5.2% of 1,678,711.
 24 to 92 newborns born to South American T. cruzi infected mothers in Spain may have been congenitally infected with T. cruzi in 2007 17,390
USA 2000
 
 2007 1.9% of approximately 13 million Latin American immigrants.
 
 2% of 17 million. 49,157
 
 65,133

Data from Schmunis 2010.