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Today is World Chagas Disease Day.

🌎 Chagas disease, predominantly affecting impoverished populations in Latin America, is increasingly spreading across continents.

⚠️ There are currently 7 million infections globally, and an estimated 10,000 people die from Chagas disease every year.

🔬 Early detection is key as Chagas disease is curable when treatment is provided soon after infection.

💩 In the Region of the Americas, T. cruzi is mainly transmitted to humans through the infected faeces of the blood-sucking triatomine bug (the ‘kissing bug’), which is the disease vector.

Chagas disease has two phases:

1️⃣ An acute phase
2️⃣ A chronic phase

Most acute phases are asymptomatic or have non-specific symptoms.

During the chronic phase patients may also be symptom-free but some may progress to clinical forms of the disease:

🫀 Cardiac symptoms
😖 Digestive symptoms
🧠 Neurological symptoms

These symptoms can be life threatening if left undiagnosed and untreated.

You can protect yourself from Chagas disease by:

✅ Insecticide spraying
✅ Home improvements
✅ Good hygiene practices
✅ Using bednets

Learn more about Chagas disease here through UNICEF ➡️ https://bit.ly/42qFfCQ

"Why was Socrates killed?

Socrates, the greatest philosopher of all time, was actually the most hated man in Athens.
He was accused of cruelty and corruption of youth.
The popular court, the Eliea, condemned him to death: and Socrates, one of the most brilliant minds in history, died drinking hemlock.

But why all this?

Socrates apparently wasn't doing anything dangerous.
He simply asked questions, spoke to anyone: with nobles, with common citizens, with young people.
But his questions, in their frankness, in their simplicity demolished the certainties of his interlocutors, forcing them to confront the emptiness of their own certainties, with the incoherence of their reasoning.

He taught us to doubt.

Socrates was a character who was too uncomfortable with the doubts he inculcated.
He had the audacity to expose corrupt politicians and false teachers who advocated false truths and false knowledge.

For this he was sentenced to death. He was a threat to the status quo, a danger that needed to be eliminated.

During the trial, Socrates did not want to repent or beg for mercy.

He also refused to be assisted by a speaker.

Intelligence is inconvenient, this is what the trial against Socrates teaches us.

The masses want illusions and not truths; they want to be flattered and live happily in ignorance.

Smart men are embarrassing.

They are prohibited, ostracized, despised, because they disturb the sleep of the masses, question authority, reveal the deceptions of the institutions.

Does this sound familiar with what is happening recently? You'll agree with me that this is very true 👍.
Lord Ken Luntsi