| the controversy on the early history of chagas disease. | recently historians of medicine have proposed three distinctive accounts of early history of chagas disease (american trypasonomiasis). according to the first the disease, described by the brazilian researcher carlos chagas in 1909, was "deconstructed" in the 1920s and disappeared for about twenty years, then was recovered in the 1940s, mainly through the epidemiological studies of emmanuel dias and his colleagues in minas gerais (brazil). according to the second chagas disease could not be "dec ... | 2005 | 16866038 |