Eden's Garden of South America.

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This chapter reviews the history of human colonization of the abundant land of South America, and the subsequent introduction of Old World diseases, such as malaria and yellow fever, in the region, particularly through international slave trade. A brief description of the transmission route and pathogenesis of Chagas' disease (a disease indigenous in South America) is also presented.

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