The report states there’s little interest in developing new drugs and the ones being used to fight the disease are over 40 years old. It causes heart problems, and it can be detected from a simple blood test. Something like this could certainly use a vaccine I would say. The disease can also be transferred through blood transfusions and organ transplantations. BD 
Today an estimated 16 to 18 million people are infected with Chagas, as the disease is now known, and it claims some 50,000 lives each year. Yet most people have never heard of it.
Chagas disease is exclusive to Latin America, and kills more people there than any other parasitic illness, including malaria.
In the mud and thatch homes of rural villages and urban slums, bugs known locally as vinchuca, make their home in cracks in the walls and holes in the roofs. The bugs carry the parasite that causes chagas, in their saliva and their feces.
He told CNN: "Many of them will drop down dead usually from heart problems cause by the disease 10, 20, 30 years after they've been infected and no one will know why."
For Dr. Ellman, this lack of effective treatment is a symptom of a much sadder cause.
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