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.