True or False: Trypanosoma cruzi infection is curable if treatment is initiated soon after infection.
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“To kill the parasite, Chagas disease can be treated with benznidazole and also nifurtimox. Both medicines are almost 100% effective in curing the disease if given soon after infection at the onset of the acute phase including the cases of congenital transmission. The efficacy of both diminishes, however, the longer a person has been infected,” according to WHO.
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