UTMB’s Nisha Garg and Shivali Gupta have successfully tested a vaccine for the insect-borne Chagas disease, which is widespread in Latin America but is beginning to show up in the U.S. - including the Houston area. The disease represents the third greatest tropical disease burden in the world. Currently, about 11 to 18 million people are infected worldwide and about 50,000 people die each year from cardiac and intestinal complications of the disease. The news also appears in U.S. News and World Report, U.S. National Library of Medicine, Science Codex, Medical Xpress, Medical News Today, Doctor’s Lounge, Vaccine News Daily, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Drugs.com, Science Newsline, Medicine Net and Bright Surf.