Posted on 12/02/2015 7:11:15 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
Thanks to Obama’s open border policies there are now hundreds of thousands of cases of Chagas Disease in the United States today. Chagas disease also known as American trypanosomiasis, is a potentially life-threatening illness caused by the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi (T. cruzi). It is found mainly in endemic areas of 21 Latin American countries. The disease is transmitted to humans by contact with feces of triatomine bugs, known as ‘kissing bugs.’ Chagas disease is spread by the Kissing Bug in Latin American countries. Chagas often leads to a fatal condition known as Chagasic cardiomyopathy.
The National School for Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine released a list of facts on Chagas Disease.
According to this prestigious school of medicine there are an estimated 300,000 cases of Chagas disease in the United States today with a high level of cases in Texas. The disease was mostly imported from Latin America. Via VDare: •Chagas disease, also known as American trypanosomiasis, is a serious infection caused by a parasitic microorganism, Trypanosoma cruzi, and is transmitted by kissing bugs. •Chagas disease is a leading cause of heart disease resulting in a debilitating and often fatal condition known as Chagasic cardiomyopathy. One in six people with Chagasic cardiomyopathy will die within five years. •An estimated 9 million people are infected in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in impoverished areas. According to the World Health Organization, the largest number of people living with Chagas disease are in poor areas of Argentina, Brazil and Mexico, while Bolivia has the highest prevalence (percentage of people infected). •The infection can be passed from mother to baby. There are an estimated 40,000 pregnant women in North America alone who have Chagas, and they will transmit the infection to their babies around 5 percent of the time. •The CDC estimates that 300,000 cases occur in the United States, mostly imported from Latin America. •Scientists at the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor, including Drs. Kristy Murray and Melissa Nolan Garcia, have uncovered a previously unrecognized level of transmission in the state of Texas.
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The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead†ping list (formerly the “Ebola†ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead†threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
More presents from the Mexicans....thanks, Obama.
I saw a bedbug for the first time on our bed last month (hoping it’s not worse). Could be from us being in hotels, or our cleaning woman who worked in a motel for many years.
It's called T. Cruzi? Unfortunate coincidence.
Imperial Islamic Quartering from the White Mosque,
agreed to complicitly by the GOP,
brought diseases to all 57 States targeted
by the submissive EXEMPT Congress and its Moslem Caliph.
Should be renamed to correctly reflect the source...T. obamazi
Is there anything this administration touched that hasn’t turned to crap?
FYI
Yet another Obama foreign policy triumph.
I became familiar with this Chagas disease twenty years ago when I worked in extremely remote areas of Bolivia and Peru and found that the disease was prevalent within much of the population.
At the time, very little research had been done on Chagas disease simply because it only affected rural peasants who couldn’t afford treatment even if a cure could have been found. We were told that Chagas disease didn’t infect urban elites because the Chagas beetle could only live within the thatched roofs of these peasants’ homes and couldn’t live elsewhere, and if the disease ever began to infect people outside the rural poor population, research and a cure would be forthcoming.
Well, it appears as if the time has come for pharmaceutical companies to gain a return on their campaign contributions.
Ping...
Very interesting...Obama digs deep in the third world to secure our demise. All by design.
No...It’s all crap all the time.
“It’s called T. Cruzi? Unfortunate coincidence.”
LMAO!!
Related thread with several good pictures of the bug...
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3364953/posts
Thanks for the ping.
People are too quick to blame every emerging disease in the US on illegal immigrants, and most of the diseases have nothing to do with immigration, legal or not.
Chaga’s disease IS one that can be blamed on illegal immigrations. The “immigrants” are carrying the diseased bugs with them.
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