How is Chagas’ Disease Spread?
1. Through the bite of a blood sucking insect, called the Reduviid, Triatomine bugs, or “kissing bugs”.
2. Through infected organ transplants or blood transfusions.
3. People may also be infected if they touch their eyes, mouth, or any open wounds such as cuts, after touching or coming into contacted with “kissing bug” feces.
4. The kissing bug may also place their feces right into a person’s eyes, causing infection
5. Uncooked food that contains infective kissing bug feces can also be a method of transmission
6. Mothers can transmit the disease through pregnancy or birth. The disease has also been documented in cases of mothers who breastfeed.
**4. The kissing bug may also place their feces right into a person’s eyes, causing infection* *
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