Neglected Tropical Diseases - Latin America and the Caribbean
This book addresses the major neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) – based on their prevalence and the years of healthy life lost to disability – in Latin American and Caribbean countries. These include Chagas disease, leishmaniasis, hookworm infection, and
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Carlos Franco-Paredes José Ignacio Santos-Preciado Editors
Neglected Tropical Diseases - Latin America and the Caribbean
Neglected Tropical Diseases
Series Editors Dr. Peter Hotez Department of Pediatrics Baylor College of Medicine Texas Children’s Hospital Texas, USA
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/11165
Carlos Franco-Paredes Jose´ Ignacio Santos-Preciado Editors
Neglected Tropical Diseases - Latin America and the Caribbean
Editors Carlos Franco-Paredes Department of Infectious Diseases Hospital Infantil de Me´xico Federico Gomez Me´xico D.F. Me´xico
Jose´ Ignacio Santos-Preciado Unidad de Medicina Experimental, Facultad de Medicina Universidad Nacional Aut onoma de Me´xico Me´xico D.F. Me´xico
ISSN 2194-8275 ISSN 2194-8283 (electronic) Neglected Tropical Diseases ISBN 978-3-7091-1421-6 ISBN 978-3-7091-1422-3 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-7091-1422-3 Library of Congress Control Number: 2015939275 Springer Wien Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London © Springer-Verlag Wien 2015 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper Springer-Verlag GmbH Wien is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Foreword
Increasing evidence mostly emerging over the last decade indicates that neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are widespread in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region, especially among the regions’ poorest people. Today among the almost 600 million people who live in LAC, close to 100 million people live on less than $2 per day, of whom about one-half live below the World Bank poverty figure of $1.25 day (Hotez et al. 2013). Virtually every person living at this level of poverty is infected with one or more NTDs, led by the intestinal helminth infections—ascariasis (86 million people), trichuriasis (72 million), and hookworm infection (30 million) (Pullan et al. 2014)— and Chagas disease (7–8 million). Moreover, dengue fever has become widespread both among the poor and middle-class
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