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The 'new AIDS of the Americas': Experts warn of deadly insect-borne disease
UK Daily Mail ^ | May 29, 2012 | Staff

Posted on 05/30/2012 7:42:36 AM PDT by bkopto

The parasitic illness called Chagas Disease has similarities to the early spread of HIV, according to a new study.

An estimated 10 million people worldwide are infected with most sufferers in Bolivia, Mexico, Columbia and Central America, as well as approximately 30,000 people in the U.S....

The disease - once largely contained to Latin America - has spread into the U.S due to increases in travel and immigration.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: aliens; chagas; chagasdisease; disease; immigration; mexico; thirdworlddisease
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To: Clara Lou

I suppose an ‘over willingness to please’ on the part of our ‘government’, greed, or just plain corruption causes U.S. Citizens to have be put in peril of chemical laced and parasite ridden Brazilian OJ, chemicals of all nature in food products from China - even deadly dog and cat foods... How is it in any way good for this country to have such lax import standards? Someone is benefiting but it is not the average citizen.


21 posted on 05/30/2012 8:39:11 AM PDT by ICCtheWay
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To: Hodar
>"Killing Americans that other americans aren’t willing to kill."

Ricky Holder's killing Mexicans just as Fast and Furiously as he can.

22 posted on 05/30/2012 8:39:26 AM PDT by rawcatslyentist ("Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one," Jeremiah 50:31)
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To: Uncle Ike

Who knows?

Aids was smuggled into the USA in the rear end of a Hudson.

This new threat may be brought in by fudge packing beetles!


23 posted on 05/30/2012 8:42:28 AM PDT by DH (Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
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To: from occupied ga
I thought that the only way you could get this was to be bitten by a reduvid bug,

What is to preclude this from becoming a tick borne disease?

24 posted on 05/30/2012 8:48:26 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The RINOcrat Party is still in charge. There has never been a conservative American government.)
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To: Liz; AuntB

More free benefits from the illegal alien invasion.


25 posted on 05/30/2012 8:58:38 AM PDT by sickoflibs (Romney is a liberal. Just watch him closely try to screw us.)
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To: bkopto

Another step toward population control (if it takes off), and hefty profits for those who find cures or treatment.


26 posted on 05/30/2012 9:09:08 AM PDT by CPO retired
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To: wolfman23601

Well said Wolfman. Need to keep on educating.


27 posted on 05/30/2012 9:11:09 AM PDT by sanjuanbob (Festina Lente)
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To: Carry_Okie

Chagas is transmitted by bugs that excrete while feeding. N. American bugs do not excrete while feeding but there is the possibility that the trypanosome will alter bug behavior - S. American bugs are bolder feeders, prefer the face of humans, and excrete while eating.

Ticks transmit disease by regurgitating into the host’s bloodstream - not much benefit in that for the tick - benefit for the bacteria or protozoa.

Toxoplasmosis changes mouse behavior and quite possibly human behavior and there are a number of weird infections that completely override insect behavior.

All that said, since new infections are decreasing even in the tropics and are associated with thatched roofs and dirt floors, there’s not much likelihood of Chagas becoming a major concern here except for already infected immigrants.


28 posted on 05/30/2012 9:23:27 AM PDT by heartwood
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To: bkopto

The disease - once largely contained to Latin America - has spread into the U.S due to increases in travel and immigration.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2151815/Chagas-disease-New-AIDS-Americas-cause-victims-hearts-explode.html#ixzz1wN3xpb49


29 posted on 05/30/2012 9:26:14 AM PDT by samtheman (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2888480/posts?page=2#2)
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To: SunkenCiv
Chagas is usually transmitted from the bite of blood-sucking insect species called Triatome bugs which release a parasite called Trypanosoma cruzi into the victim's bloodstream. The species includes Triatomids - black wingless beetles about 20mm in length commonly known as 'kissing bugs'. Their closest relative is the Tsetse fly, found in Africa, which spread Sleeping Sickness (where the victim's brain swells).

Much of what is reported in these 2 paragraphs are in error. The first sentence, above, is merely misleading. The vector is the "kissing bug", Triatoma. The protozoa is released into the blood stream, not the triatoma (a true 'bug",Order Hemiptera).

Triatoma is not a beetle. The beetle is a member of the Order Coleoptera. The triatoma is a member of the Order Hemiptera. Triatoma is not closely related to the Tsetse fly. The Tsetse fly is a member of the Order Diptera.

These parasitic organisms are Tripanosoma cruzi (Chagas disease, in the Americas) and Tripansoma gambiensis (African Sleeping Sickness, African).

30 posted on 05/30/2012 9:29:31 AM PDT by Texas Songwriter (Ia)
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To: heartwood

Man, I just got addicted to this Mexican fruit juice, it’s 35% juice, not like the American crap that is usually no more than 5%. Think I am going to get “chagas” now?


31 posted on 05/30/2012 9:30:45 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: heartwood
You can get it from blood or organ transplants and it has been transmitted that way in the US - is now tested for. You can get it from eating the crushed bugs - in fruit pulp or juice.

Yick. I didn't know that. Thoroughly nasty disease. Isn't that what some people think killed Darwin?

32 posted on 05/30/2012 9:37:38 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: heartwood
Chagas is transmitted by bugs that excrete while feeding. N. American bugs do not excrete while feeding but there is the possibility that the trypanosome will alter bug behavior -

Fascinating. I thought that all those little black blobs around a tick bite on my dog they were tick poop. So are they dried regurgitated blood?

33 posted on 05/30/2012 9:39:19 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The RINOcrat Party is still in charge. There has never been a conservative American government.)
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To: Hodar
A family friend just came back from college with Scarlet Fever.

I've never even heard of someone having the disease. Anecdotal, to be sure, but troubling.

34 posted on 05/30/2012 9:40:03 AM PDT by wbill
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To: Carry_Okie
What is to preclude this from becoming a tick borne disease?

Considering ticks are found where the disease exists, but haven't become a vector, I'd say some sort of basic incompatibility of the protozooan with the tick's digestive system that isn't present in the kissing bug's digestive system.

35 posted on 05/30/2012 9:41:29 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: NonValueAdded

ha ha ha ha
;-)


36 posted on 05/30/2012 9:44:26 AM PDT by a real Sheila ("Vado a bordo, cazzo!")
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To: ICCtheWay
How is it in any way good for this country to have such lax import standards? Someone is benefiting but it is not the average citizen.

Think "reserve currency." Subsidized trade is a license to print more money.

37 posted on 05/30/2012 9:46:36 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The RINOcrat Party is still in charge. There has never been a conservative American government.)
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To: bkopto
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NO WAIT THAT ACTUALLY WORKS lets try water and mr bubble !

38 posted on 05/30/2012 9:47:55 AM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK (Any man may make a mistake ; none but a fool will persist in it . { Latin proverb })
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To: from occupied ga

it killed him...47 years later.


39 posted on 05/30/2012 9:55:46 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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To: Mad Dawgg

I have spent my life (since puberty) developing a special type of acupuncture that would work very well on any of these girls......


40 posted on 05/30/2012 10:34:37 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s....you weren't really there)
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