The hidden Chagas disease burden in Europe.

Chagas disease in non-endemic countries that is, in countries outside Latin America with exceptional or no vectorial transmission such as in Europe has come to light since the beginning of 2000. The emergence of the disease in those countries was mainly linked to population mobility, notably migration. During the last century, Chagas disease cases were detected in nonendemic countries in North America (Canada and the United States) and the Western Pacific Region (mainly Australia and Japan), and only more recently in Europe [1,2].