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 ...
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.
Ricky Holder's killing Mexicans just as Fast and Furiously as he can.
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!
What is to preclude this from becoming a tick borne disease?
More free benefits from the illegal alien invasion.
Another step toward population control (if it takes off), and hefty profits for those who find cures or treatment.
Well said Wolfman. Need to keep on educating.
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.
The disease - once largely contained to Latin America - has spread into the U.S due to increases in travel and immigration.
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).
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?
Yick. I didn't know that. Thoroughly nasty disease. Isn't that what some people think killed Darwin?
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?
I've never even heard of someone having the disease. Anecdotal, to be sure, but troubling.
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.
ha ha ha ha
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Think "reserve currency." Subsidized trade is a license to print more money.
NO WAIT THAT ACTUALLY WORKS lets try water and mr bubble !
it killed him...47 years later.
I have spent my life (since puberty) developing a special type of acupuncture that would work very well on any of these girls......
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