Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Chagas disease

Chagas disease

 * This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/March 28, 2022 by Wehwalt (talk) 20:32, 5 February 2022 (UTC)



Chagas disease is a tropical parasitic disease which occurs in the Americas, particularly in South America. It is caused by a flagellate protozoan named Trypanosoma cruzi (pictured), which is transmitted to humans and other mammals primarily by blood-drinking insects of the subfamily Triatominae. Other forms of transmission are possible, such as ingestion of food contaminated with parasites, blood transfusion and maternal–fetal transmission. After an initial stage of infection that is usually mild or asymptomatic, untreated individuals enter the chronic phase of the disease. People with chronic Chagas disease may develop organ dysfunction, which most commonly involves the heart or the digestive system. Chagas disease can be treated using the antiparasitic drugs benznidazole and nifurtimox, which are most effective in the early stage of infection. It is estimated that 6.2 million people worldwide are living with the disease, and it is responsible for about 7,900 annual deaths.


 * Most recent similar article(s): Frances Gertrude McGill on May 7 was a medical scientist, could not find anything "Medicine" related after that.
 * Main editors: Nominator: . FAR participants: &
 * Promoted: 2005, FAR in May 2020
 * Reasons for nomination: Medicine is underrepresented at TFA, as evidenced by the last recent article. This would be a TFA re-run; its last TFA was July 31, 2005. The blurb and image is from its 2005 run so they might need to be updated (and the image is no longer used in the article).
 * Support as nominator. Z1720 (talk) 18:07, 23 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Support (but Spicy and Ajpolino will need to rewrite the old blurb). It is a pity we didn't have WP:FASA when they restored this article. Sandy Georgia  (Talk)  18:30, 23 January 2022 (UTC)
 * FASA is going to make it easier for future TFA nominators to identify and contact the main editors for articles that are saved at FAR, as the nominator won't have to read the whole FAR to figure out who fixed up the article. Z1720 (talk) 19:24, 23 January 2022 (UTC)
 * True dat! Sandy Georgia  (Talk)  19:37, 23 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Comment Sure, I'm happy to clean up the blurb or address any other issues if needed. If we're in no particular rush, the WHO has called April 14th "World Chagas Disease Day" for the last couple of years. It might be cute for us to run it at TFA on that day. That said, my impression is no one really cares about World Chagas Day outside of WHO headquarters, so if we can't squeeze it in that day, it's no big deal. Ajpolino (talk) 17:58, 24 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Looks like Spicy is ahead of me on the blurb cleanup. Thank you :) Ajpolino (talk) 18:00, 24 January 2022 (UTC)
 * I like having TFAs relate to the date they are posted for because it makes the article a little more special. At WP:TFAP there isn't a TFA request for April 14. I doubt there will be another disease article until then, so do we want to hold this for April 14? That will also give more time to spruce up the blurb, and maybe the WHO designation can be added to the blurb. Z1720 (talk) 18:26, 24 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Indifferent to the date (agree that WHO's "World Chagas Day" is not very relevant, but doesn't matter). Sandy Georgia  (Talk)  19:31, 24 January 2022 (UTC)