Latin American Scourge turning up in U.S. immigrants (Chagas Disease)

Los Angeles Times via SF Gate.com ^ | November 6, 2007 | Mary Engel

[television is just wrong]

P.S. I've seen these kissing bugs. Scares the hell out of me.

bankrupting our medical system and blaming us for it.

[gubamyster]

ping

[BipolarBob]

Move on. Nothing to see here folks. This is just diversity in action.

[Brad’s Gramma]

A Los Angeles County hospital has opened the first clinic in the country devoted to studying and treating Chagas disease, a deadly parasitic illness that has long been the leading cause of heart failure in Latin America and is now being seen in immigrant communities in the United States.

Well, isn't this just ducky?

[Army Air Corps]

Spreading the diseases that Americans won’t spread?

[Brad’s Gramma]

I wonder if ole whatzhisface will come to this thread to comment?

[Army Air Corps]

The description of this insect is rather nasty.

[Diogenesis]

"More diseases for the stupid voters. If you can't drown them, infect them."

[Army Air Corps]

The Conenose

[Catholic Canadian]

Great...and you guys have complained vociferously in the past about Canada’s borders......

[Oldexpat]

That pictue of Kennedy and the crew keeps reminding me of the Cromwell revolution in England where he hung all the parliament members from gas lamps in London.
These guys have betrayed the american people...

[Palladin]

Latino bedbugs?

[PGalt]

Thanks for the ping. BTTT!

[TheLion]

Bttt!

[X-FID]

P.S. I've seen these kissing bugs. Scares the hell out of me.

I have seen the Blood-Sucking Conenose at work and we captured 2 of them.

They are very scary looking, you can get a pic online.

Huge cone tucked under their head, forget about the disease, these boys can deliver some pain. Never saw them in the area until 2000.

[X-FID]

That isn’t a conenose.

[Army Air Corps]

Sorry, wrong pic. Here is the Conenose.

[Brad’s Gramma]

So. I Googled this disease. I found this regarding symptoms....

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001372.htm

The last sentence reads:

“Because the incidence of Chagas disease is low in the United States, blood banks here do not screen donors for Chagas disease.” Update Date: 9/25/2006

[X-FID]

There you go, that thing has a long schnoz that is hinged.

We put one under a microscope and if you flip that bug over you will see a proboscis that runs almost to the midsection of the body and it appeared to have hair sprouting near the tip, like barbs.

[Rudder]

We could hire illegal aliens to cover up the feces that Americans won’t.