Current epidemiological trends of Chagas disease in Latin America and future challenges: epidemiology, surveillance, and health policies**This paper did not receive any financial support.

Chagas disease, named after Carlos Chagas who first described it in 1909, exists only on the American Continent. It is caused by a parasite, Trypanosoma cruzi transmitted to humans by blood-sucking triatomine bugs and by blood transfusion.